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 79
... prayers , English parish churches and , even more , English cathedrals , were themselves aides - m6moires.18 To enter such religious theatres ( so Reformers would term them ) was to be visually reminded of the dead and their need of prayer ...
... prayers , English parish churches and , even more , English cathedrals , were themselves aides - m6moires.18 To enter such religious theatres ( so Reformers would term them ) was to be visually reminded of the dead and their need of prayer ...
Page 80
... prayer for the dead is maintained ... We say nothing of the threefold peale , bicause that is rather licensed by Injunction than commaunded in their book [ of Common Prayer ] ; nor of their straunge mourning by chaunging theyr garments ...
... prayer for the dead is maintained ... We say nothing of the threefold peale , bicause that is rather licensed by Injunction than commaunded in their book [ of Common Prayer ] ; nor of their straunge mourning by chaunging theyr garments ...
Page 81
... prayers over the corpse . 31 - Barrow's ironic reference to the ' trental ' - a series of thirty commissioned masses ... praying for the dead at crosses ... or any other superstitious use of crosses , with towels , palms ... or other ...
... prayers over the corpse . 31 - Barrow's ironic reference to the ' trental ' - a series of thirty commissioned masses ... praying for the dead at crosses ... or any other superstitious use of crosses , with towels , palms ... or other ...
Page 82
... Prayer for the dead ' . However , having equivocated on how ' positively ' he practiced the forbidden prayer , he then remembers how he could ' scarce contain my prayers for a friend at the ringing of a bell ' or barely ' behold a ...
... Prayer for the dead ' . However , having equivocated on how ' positively ' he practiced the forbidden prayer , he then remembers how he could ' scarce contain my prayers for a friend at the ringing of a bell ' or barely ' behold a ...
Page 85
... prayer for the dead ) and the Roman ' commendatory of the dead parties ' ( suggesting aid for them55 ) re - implicates the ' poetical ' ( including , for Puttenham , the theatrical ) in the religio - political . Observe , therefore ...
... prayer for the dead ) and the Roman ' commendatory of the dead parties ' ( suggesting aid for them55 ) re - implicates the ' poetical ' ( including , for Puttenham , the theatrical ) in the religio - political . Observe , therefore ...
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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