Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming EnglandRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 176 pages Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not an anti-Catholic and Reformist genre, but one rooted in, and in dialogue with, traditional Catholic culture. Arguing its tragedies are bound to the age's funerary performances, it provides a new view of the contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period. |
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Page 77
... Protestants defined their ' true church ' against ( and so in terms of ) the alleged Babylon of Catholicism , Alison Shell has argued for the unwitting entwinement of Protestantism within Catholicism , and thus for the simultaneous ...
... Protestants defined their ' true church ' against ( and so in terms of ) the alleged Babylon of Catholicism , Alison Shell has argued for the unwitting entwinement of Protestantism within Catholicism , and thus for the simultaneous ...
Page 79
... Protestantism succeeded Catholicism as England's official religion , accounts of the parish of Morebath note ... Protestants did pray over their dead , but they ceased to consider the rehearsals helpful for the dead.
... Protestantism succeeded Catholicism as England's official religion , accounts of the parish of Morebath note ... Protestants did pray over their dead , but they ceased to consider the rehearsals helpful for the dead.
Page 87
... Protestantism that re - emerged under Elizabeth a movement first and foremost against the traditional performances of post - mortem memory . Collinson , who considers John Stow ' invaluable ' on the topic , notes how Stow's account of ...
... Protestantism that re - emerged under Elizabeth a movement first and foremost against the traditional performances of post - mortem memory . Collinson , who considers John Stow ' invaluable ' on the topic , notes how Stow's account of ...
Page 88
... Protestantism from Elizabeth's coronation onwards . For the following epistolary condemnation by Edmund Grindal of funerary practices in London in 1570 anticipates the Bishop of Carlisle in 1629 , and indeed The Directory for the Public ...
... Protestantism from Elizabeth's coronation onwards . For the following epistolary condemnation by Edmund Grindal of funerary practices in London in 1570 anticipates the Bishop of Carlisle in 1629 , and indeed The Directory for the Public ...
Page 89
... Protestants of appropriate affect in memory of the dead . In his 1595 sermon entitled The Meane in Mourning , thus , Thomas Playfere allowed mourners to weep ' so long as it was not immoderate ' : 80 the purportedly Aristotelian ' mean ...
... Protestants of appropriate affect in memory of the dead . In his 1595 sermon entitled The Meane in Mourning , thus , Thomas Playfere allowed mourners to weep ' so long as it was not immoderate ' : 80 the purportedly Aristotelian ' mean ...
Contents
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Revenge and the Melodrama of Mourning in The Spanish Tragedy | |
Titus Andronicus and Hamlet | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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