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 69
... discussion as financial or technical supporters ( patrons , musicians , dancers , seamstresses , wigmakers , or ' gatherers ' ) , if not authors or performers per se . Welcome too are critiques of early modern drama that not only take ...
... discussion as financial or technical supporters ( patrons , musicians , dancers , seamstresses , wigmakers , or ' gatherers ' ) , if not authors or performers per se . Welcome too are critiques of early modern drama that not only take ...
Page 76
... discussion and coffee . For responding to queries and for pointers , I thank Peter Marshall , Eamon Duffy , William Naphy , Lisa Hopkins and David Robertson ; and for hours in which ideas in this book were tested , I thank my students ...
... discussion and coffee . For responding to queries and for pointers , I thank Peter Marshall , Eamon Duffy , William Naphy , Lisa Hopkins and David Robertson ; and for hours in which ideas in this book were tested , I thank my students ...
Page 77
... discussion of The Spanish Tragedy by S.F Johnson : ' To Protestant interpreters , the symbolic Babylon was of course Rome , the whore of Babylon , being equated with the Antichrist , in turn equated with the Pope , one of whose agents ...
... discussion of The Spanish Tragedy by S.F Johnson : ' To Protestant interpreters , the symbolic Babylon was of course Rome , the whore of Babylon , being equated with the Antichrist , in turn equated with the Pope , one of whose agents ...
Page 83
... discussions of these last properties that they were not imitations , theatrical skulls present material links or at least undecipherable illusions of them15 - not just to dead persons , but also to the places of burial from which their ...
... discussions of these last properties that they were not imitations , theatrical skulls present material links or at least undecipherable illusions of them15 - not just to dead persons , but also to the places of burial from which their ...
Page 87
... discussion with a general thought about Elizabethan Reform , a final example of Elizabethan anti - memorialism , and an opening view of our revenge tragedy . In regard to the Reform , it is not entirely reductive to consider the active ...
... discussion with a general thought about Elizabethan Reform , a final example of Elizabethan anti - memorialism , and an opening view of our revenge tragedy . In regard to the Reform , it is not entirely reductive to consider the active ...
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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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