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 80
... 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 the dead is maintained ... We say nothing of the ...
... 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 the dead is maintained ... We say nothing of the ...
Page 83
... commemorative and funerary experience.42 - Dramatic scenes depicting mourners , the bearing of corpses , funeral processions or all these features ( as we find in act I , scene ii of Shakespeare's Richard III ) , all similarly testify ...
... commemorative and funerary experience.42 - Dramatic scenes depicting mourners , the bearing of corpses , funeral processions or all these features ( as we find in act I , scene ii of Shakespeare's Richard III ) , all similarly testify ...
Page 91
... commemorative emotion is a very sign of popery , which in turn is conceived of as un - Christian ( ' before the gospel came amongst us ' ; ' not as the Heathen ' ) and indeed atheistic ( ' as though there wer no god ' ) . Nor were ...
... commemorative emotion is a very sign of popery , which in turn is conceived of as un - Christian ( ' before the gospel came amongst us ' ; ' not as the Heathen ' ) and indeed atheistic ( ' as though there wer no god ' ) . Nor were ...
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Contents
76 | |
Revenge and the Melodrama of Mourning in The Spanish Tragedy | |
Titus Andronicus and Hamlet | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England Thomas Rist Limited preview - 2008 |
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Andrea anti-Catholic Antonio's Revenge Atheist's Tragedy blood Bosola Brachiano Broude Broude's Broudian burial bury Cambridge University Press Catholic Catholicism ceremony Charlemont Children of Paul's Christian church claim commemorative condemnation considered contemporary controversy corpse Cressy D'Amville D'Amville's death discussion dishonoured drama Duchess of Malfi Early Modern Elizabethan emerges emotion emphasis England English especially Ferdinand Flamineo funeral funerary genre ghost godly Goths grave grief Hamlet Hieronimo highlighting historical honour Horatio implies irony Isabella Kyd's Laertes Lavinia London Lucius Marcus memorial Montferrers monument Moreover mourning Mulryne murder observed Oxford Pandulpho Paul's Theatre performances of remembrance performed remembrance Piero Pigman play play's playhouse popish pray prayers presents Protestant Purgatory Puritan Reformed Reformist religio-political religion religious Renaissance revenge tragedy Revenger's Tragedy rite ritual Roman Roman Actor scene Shakespeare skull sorrow soul Spanish Tragedy stage style suggesting superstition Tamora tears theatre theatrical thou Titus Andronicus tomb traditional vengeance Vindice Vindice's Vittoria White Devil