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
... Fathers had only ' praied for the dead , to insinuate their hope in the resurrection , to mitigate their sorrow , and to declare their affection toward the dead'.22 Similarly , William Guild claimed a correct remembrance was ' for ...
... Fathers had only ' praied for the dead , to insinuate their hope in the resurrection , to mitigate their sorrow , and to declare their affection toward the dead'.22 Similarly , William Guild claimed a correct remembrance was ' for ...
Page 83
... father's tomb having missed his funeral ; but then ' retrospective modulates into a cry for revenge : Zeus , Zeus , grant me vengeance for my father's murder . Stand and fight beside me , of your grace . " 147 In Aeschylus , moreover ...
... father's tomb having missed his funeral ; but then ' retrospective modulates into a cry for revenge : Zeus , Zeus , grant me vengeance for my father's murder . Stand and fight beside me , of your grace . " 147 In Aeschylus , moreover ...
Page 87
... the origine of images , and worshipping of them , as it is recorded in the eight [ sic ] Chapter of the booke of Wisdome , began of a blinde love of a fond father , framing for his comfort an Image of his sonne , being dead , and so at.
... the origine of images , and worshipping of them , as it is recorded in the eight [ sic ] Chapter of the booke of Wisdome , began of a blinde love of a fond father , framing for his comfort an Image of his sonne , being dead , and so at.
Page 90
... father who keeps an image of his dead son in The Book of Wisdom , a favourite text for Reformers , Calvin had argued that the father ' conferred ... honor on the dead , and thus superstitiously worshipped [ his son's ] memory ...
... father who keeps an image of his dead son in The Book of Wisdom , a favourite text for Reformers , Calvin had argued that the father ' conferred ... honor on the dead , and thus superstitiously worshipped [ his son's ] memory ...
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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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