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 73
... Memorials in literature ISBN 9780754661528 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Revenge Tragedy : Critical. I. Title 822.3'09353 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Rist , Thomas , 1971- Revenge tragedy and the ...
... Memorials in literature ISBN 9780754661528 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Revenge Tragedy : Critical. I. Title 822.3'09353 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Rist , Thomas , 1971- Revenge tragedy and the ...
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... Memorial Revenge at the Reformation ( s ) : Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ' ; and I thank Special Collections at Aberdeen University for similar permission to use the image ( from Holbein ) on the dustjacket . Finally , I am grateful for ...
... Memorial Revenge at the Reformation ( s ) : Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ' ; and I thank Special Collections at Aberdeen University for similar permission to use the image ( from Holbein ) on the dustjacket . Finally , I am grateful for ...
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... memorials as living , Calvinism - by 1600 the ' characteristic theology ' of the English Church11 did not . For ... memorial of Christ successively re - presented at the altar ( or as Calvinists preferred , at the communion table ) ...
... memorials as living , Calvinism - by 1600 the ' characteristic theology ' of the English Church11 did not . For ... memorial of Christ successively re - presented at the altar ( or as Calvinists preferred , at the communion table ) ...
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... memorials of the dead as stimuli for vengeful emotion : as early moderns knew , The Libation Bearers opens with Orestes ... memorial stimulus is focal : Exactly the same movement of feeling is experienced by Electra when she , in turn ...
... memorials of the dead as stimuli for vengeful emotion : as early moderns knew , The Libation Bearers opens with Orestes ... memorial stimulus is focal : Exactly the same movement of feeling is experienced by Electra when she , in turn ...
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... memorial but also in their religio - politics , I consider two commentaries of different kinds . The first is a ... memorial of the dead ' , thereafter evoking an England in which such literary memorials are ' hanged up in Churches and ...
... memorial but also in their religio - politics , I consider two commentaries of different kinds . The first is a ... memorial of the dead ' , thereafter evoking an England in which such literary memorials are ' hanged up in Churches and ...
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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