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
... emphasized thanksgiving and praise of God for the deceased , commemorations being therapeutic and a sign of love . For example , in his anti - Catholic The Surveyof Popery ( 1596 ) , Thomas Bell claimed the Church Fathers had only ...
... emphasized thanksgiving and praise of God for the deceased , commemorations being therapeutic and a sign of love . For example , in his anti - Catholic The Surveyof Popery ( 1596 ) , Thomas Bell claimed the Church Fathers had only ...
Page 89
... the gradualness of this development is telling : the Reformed emphasis on ' moderate ' mourning was deep - seated and widespread.85 Reformed exhortations for such mourning Mourning and its Aesthetics at the 'Change of Religion'
... the gradualness of this development is telling : the Reformed emphasis on ' moderate ' mourning was deep - seated and widespread.85 Reformed exhortations for such mourning Mourning and its Aesthetics at the 'Change of Religion'
Page 90
... emphasis - not all heading toward ' compassion " " on how one might mourn . Nevertheless , Pigman's study of a variety of writings ( essays , sermons , formularies , disputations , tracts ) anticipates in detail the present , developing ...
... emphasis - not all heading toward ' compassion " " on how one might mourn . Nevertheless , Pigman's study of a variety of writings ( essays , sermons , formularies , disputations , tracts ) anticipates in detail the present , developing ...
Page 91
... emphasis because the necessity of moderation is never lost sight of . The third position ... [ r ] igorism ... prohibits and condemns all grief for those who have died virtuously and are in heaven . " 93 That the differences were merely ...
... emphasis because the necessity of moderation is never lost sight of . The third position ... [ r ] igorism ... prohibits and condemns all grief for those who have died virtuously and are in heaven . " 93 That the differences were merely ...
Page 92
... emphasis on emotion in the procedure than did their Reformed successors , the latter preferring to emphasize ' godly logic ' or ' theology'.104 It is against the heightened sense of the irreligion ( heathen and popish ) of emotion in ...
... emphasis on emotion in the procedure than did their Reformed successors , the latter preferring to emphasize ' godly logic ' or ' theology'.104 It is against the heightened sense of the irreligion ( heathen and popish ) of emotion in ...
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