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
... styles of their performance , the violently anti - Roman authors complained of the official English Church's commemorative rite : They appoint a prescript kind of service to bury the dead , and that which is the duty of every Christian ...
... styles of their performance , the violently anti - Roman authors complained of the official English Church's commemorative rite : They appoint a prescript kind of service to bury the dead , and that which is the duty of every Christian ...
Page 81
... style in white array , his ministering vesture with solemn song , or else reading aloud certain of their fragments ... style , enactment or in this case ' manner ' - terms all denoting the performative - of the enacted devotions to the ...
... style in white array , his ministering vesture with solemn song , or else reading aloud certain of their fragments ... style , enactment or in this case ' manner ' - terms all denoting the performative - of the enacted devotions to the ...
Page 82
... style becomes tangible in individual cases . In 1569 John Stow was officially investigated under suspicion of ' closet Catholicism ' , thereafter undergoing what Patrick Collinson calls ' conversion by conformity ' and censoring the ...
... style becomes tangible in individual cases . In 1569 John Stow was officially investigated under suspicion of ' closet Catholicism ' , thereafter undergoing what Patrick Collinson calls ' conversion by conformity ' and censoring the ...
Page 84
... styles of memorial but also in their religio - politics , I consider two commentaries of different kinds . The first is a response to Massinger's Roman Actor , probably first performed in 1626 , thus not quite ' Jacobean ' . Recalling ...
... styles of memorial but also in their religio - politics , I consider two commentaries of different kinds . The first is a response to Massinger's Roman Actor , probably first performed in 1626 , thus not quite ' Jacobean ' . Recalling ...
Page 92
... style and Reformed social identity , but the O.E.D. suggests that ' godliness ' is integral to English Protestantism : ' godly ' originates with the pre - Reformer Wyclif , and Tyndale's English Bible translated 2 Cor . 7 : 9 as ' for ...
... style and Reformed social identity , but the O.E.D. suggests that ' godliness ' is integral to English Protestantism : ' godly ' originates with the pre - Reformer Wyclif , and Tyndale's English Bible translated 2 Cor . 7 : 9 as ' for ...
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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