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 78
... controversy over remembrance of the dead and the place of performance in that controversy . The Dead and Performative Religio - Politics at the ' Change of Religion ' In the development of a Church calendar commemorating Christ's life ...
... controversy over remembrance of the dead and the place of performance in that controversy . The Dead and Performative Religio - Politics at the ' Change of Religion ' In the development of a Church calendar commemorating Christ's life ...
Page 82
... controversy . Michael Neill has observed how in seeking to distinguish comic from tragic in The Defense of Poesy , Sir Philip Sidney passingly makes ' funerals ' synonymous with ' right tragedies ' ; 40 similarly , Duke Theseus's ...
... controversy . Michael Neill has observed how in seeking to distinguish comic from tragic in The Defense of Poesy , Sir Philip Sidney passingly makes ' funerals ' synonymous with ' right tragedies ' ; 40 similarly , Duke Theseus's ...
Page 84
... controversial potential of such buildings was immense , as I argue in reading Antonio's Revenge as a play for Paul's Theatre in Chapter 2 , and it cannot have left even the purpose - built playhouses unaffected . - As final evidence of ...
... controversial potential of such buildings was immense , as I argue in reading Antonio's Revenge as a play for Paul's Theatre in Chapter 2 , and it cannot have left even the purpose - built playhouses unaffected . - As final evidence of ...
Page 85
... controversial well into the seventeenth - century , it is nevertheless hard to distinguish Protestant from Catholic memorials in the theatre . Thus , though revenge tragedy repeatedly presents acts in remembrance of the dead , it only ...
... controversial well into the seventeenth - century , it is nevertheless hard to distinguish Protestant from Catholic memorials in the theatre . Thus , though revenge tragedy repeatedly presents acts in remembrance of the dead , it only ...
Page 86
... controversy repeated within and across the genre , but in regard to religio - politics it is the fifth feature , which I call the ' aesthetics of mourning ' , that determines pervasively the genre of revenge tragedy . For being ...
... controversy repeated within and across the genre , but in regard to religio - politics it is the fifth feature , which I call the ' aesthetics of mourning ' , that determines pervasively the genre of revenge tragedy . For being ...
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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