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Genres of Renaissance tragedy.

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to race to religious conflict, as well as providing us with some of the earliest dramatic representations of the lives of ordi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2019.
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  • Front matter; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; De casibus tragedy: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great; Biblical tragedy: George Peele's David and Bethsabe; Closet tragedy: Fulke Greville's Mustapha; Tragedy of state: Macbeth; Domestic tragedy: Yarington 's Two Lamentable Tragedies; Roman tragedy: the case of Jonson's Sejanus; Satiric tragedy: The Revenger's Tragedy; Revenge tragedy: Henry Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman; 'Ha, O my horror!' Grotesque tragedy in John Webster's The White Devil
  • She-tragedy: lust, luxury and empire in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The False OneFord's Perkin Warbeck as historical tragedy; Caroline tragedy: James Shirley's The Traitor; Selected bibliography; Index