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
... Roman Catholic habits survived even among England's more consciously Reformed : today , the stark Protestant - Catholic dichotomy of Broude's formula for revenge tragedy seems simplistic . Responding to this development , critics have ...
... Roman Catholic habits survived even among England's more consciously Reformed : today , the stark Protestant - Catholic dichotomy of Broude's formula for revenge tragedy seems simplistic . Responding to this development , critics have ...
Page 78
... Roman church of San Sebastian on the Appian Way ; the apostles having been buried at its altar , it is still traditionally the ' Memoria Apostolorum ' : the alleged place the apostles are . Though early modern Lutherans continued to ...
... Roman church of San Sebastian on the Appian Way ; the apostles having been buried at its altar , it is still traditionally the ' Memoria Apostolorum ' : the alleged place the apostles are . Though early modern Lutherans continued to ...
Page 80
... Roman authors complained of the official English Church's commemorative rite : They appoint a prescript kind of service to bury the dead , and that which is the duty of every Christian they tie alone to the minister , whereby prayer for ...
... Roman authors complained of the official English Church's commemorative rite : They appoint a prescript kind of service to bury the dead , and that which is the duty of every Christian they tie alone to the minister , whereby prayer for ...
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... Roman Actor , probably first performed in 1626 , thus not quite ' Jacobean ' . Recalling Nashe on I Henry VI , several responses praise the play's funerary and ' revival ' of dead persons , 51 but one such response , by an anonymous ...
... Roman Actor , probably first performed in 1626 , thus not quite ' Jacobean ' . Recalling Nashe on I Henry VI , several responses praise the play's funerary and ' revival ' of dead persons , 51 but one such response , by an anonymous ...
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... Roman ' commendatory of the dead parties ' ( suggesting aid for them55 ) re - implicates the ' poetical ' ( including , for Puttenham , the theatrical ) in the religio - political . Observe , therefore , that the broad - brush claim ...
... Roman ' commendatory of the dead parties ' ( suggesting aid for them55 ) re - implicates the ' poetical ' ( including , for Puttenham , the theatrical ) in the religio - political . Observe , therefore , that the broad - brush claim ...
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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