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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... contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period. Thomas Rist, PhD, is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and is the author of ...
... contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period. Thomas Rist, PhD, is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and is the author of ...
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... contemporary sensitivity to performances of remembrance . That this view of funerary performance or ' style ' was not wholly exaggerated is attested elsewhere . Also emphasizing the manner of performance in 1590 , Henry Barrow similarly ...
... contemporary sensitivity to performances of remembrance . That this view of funerary performance or ' style ' was not wholly exaggerated is attested elsewhere . Also emphasizing the manner of performance in 1590 , Henry Barrow similarly ...
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... contemporary account , drama – in this case historical tragedy – is a commemorative and funerary experience.42 - Dramatic scenes depicting mourners , the bearing of corpses , funeral processions or all these features ( as we find in act ...
... contemporary account , drama – in this case historical tragedy – is a commemorative and funerary experience.42 - Dramatic scenes depicting mourners , the bearing of corpses , funeral processions or all these features ( as we find in act ...
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... contemporary theatre . As I have already observed , traditional churches had been aides - m6moires for the dead , but what if these buildings - including the Blackfriars and the Whitefriars were put to theatrical use ? The controversial ...
... contemporary theatre . As I have already observed , traditional churches had been aides - m6moires for the dead , but what if these buildings - including the Blackfriars and the Whitefriars were put to theatrical use ? The controversial ...
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... contemporary theatre killed ' the credibility of the supernatural ' by presenting it as illusory is mistaken.56 None of the evidence here considered - not the period's pervasively memorial arts , nor the contemporary perceptions of the ...
... contemporary theatre killed ' the credibility of the supernatural ' by presenting it as illusory is mistaken.56 None of the evidence here considered - not the period's pervasively memorial arts , nor the contemporary perceptions of the ...
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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