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 82
... 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 initiation of comedy's ' merriments ...
... 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 initiation of comedy's ' merriments ...
Page 84
... observed , traditional churches had been aides - m6moires for the dead , but what if these buildings - including the Blackfriars and the Whitefriars were put to theatrical use ? The controversial potential of such buildings was immense ...
... observed , traditional churches had been aides - m6moires for the dead , but what if these buildings - including the Blackfriars and the Whitefriars were put to theatrical use ? The controversial potential of such buildings was immense ...
Page 85
... Observe , therefore , that the broad - brush claim that the contemporary theatre killed ' the credibility of the supernatural ' by presenting it as illusory is mistaken.56 None of the evidence here considered - not the period's ...
... Observe , therefore , that the broad - brush claim that the contemporary theatre killed ' the credibility of the supernatural ' by presenting it as illusory is mistaken.56 None of the evidence here considered - not the period's ...
Page 86
... observed , were sites not only of memorials but of memorial controversy ; but as the late sixteenth - progressed into the seventeenth- century , the rituals of funeral - those performative elements of a burial systematically reduced ...
... observed , were sites not only of memorials but of memorial controversy ; but as the late sixteenth - progressed into the seventeenth- century , the rituals of funeral - those performative elements of a burial systematically reduced ...
Page 89
... observed , even Michael Neill's Issues of Death ( which illustrates the pervasiveness of mournful funeral in Renaissance drama and with which this study is therefore contiguous ) says next to nothing of the substantial religious ...
... observed , even Michael Neill's Issues of Death ( which illustrates the pervasiveness of mournful funeral in Renaissance drama and with which this study is therefore contiguous ) says next to nothing of the substantial religious ...
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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