The Doctrine Of Election And The Emergence Of Elizabethan Tragedy

Author : Martha Tuck Rozett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400856718

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The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy by Martha Tuck Rozett Pdf

This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the Elizabethan stage draws on a variety of material, including theological tracts, sermons, and dramatic works beginning with sixteenth-century morality plays and continuing through Marlowe's career and the beginning of Shakespeare's. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271039633

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double by Kent Cartwright Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791076750

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Elizabethan Drama by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521793599

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by Claire McEachern Pdf

Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.

Author : Mathew R. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317008385

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Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe by Mathew R. Martin Pdf

Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe’s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin’s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period’s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe’s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe’s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.

Author : John E. Curran,, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495058

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Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama by John E. Curran,, Jr. Pdf

This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.

Author : Huston Diehl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501734083

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Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage by Huston Diehl Pdf

Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation—a reformed drama—and a producer of Protestant habits of thought—a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society. Drawing on the insights of symbolic anthropologists, Diehl explores the relationship between the suppression of late medieval religious cultures, with their rituals, symbols, plays, processions, and devotional practices, and the emergence of a popular theater under the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth and James. Questioning long-held assumptions that the reformed religion was inherently antitheatrical, she shows how the reformers invented new forms of theater, even as they condemned a Roman Catholic theatricality they associated with magic, sensuality, and duplicity. Using as her central texts the tragedies of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, Diehl maintains that plays of the period reflexively explore their own power to dazzle, seduce, and deceive. Employing a reformed rhetoric that is both powerful and profoundly disturbing, they disrupt their own stunning spectacles. Out of this creative tension between theatricality and antitheatricality emerges a distinctly Protestant aesthetic.

Author : Thomas Betteridge,Greg Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199566471

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The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama by Thomas Betteridge,Greg Walker Pdf

A study of Tudor drama that sees the long 16th century from the accession of Henry Tudor to the death of Elizabeth as a whole, taking in the drama of the 'mystery plays' and the early work of Shakespeare. It is an account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of Tudor drama.

Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351017015

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Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature by Richard Gaskin Pdf

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.

Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031

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Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama by Lieke Stelling Pdf

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Author : William Casey King
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189841

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Ambition, A History by William Casey King Pdf

Is “ambitious” a compliment? It depends: “[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history.”—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, everything from “a canker on the soul” to the impetus for original sin. This engaging book explores ambition’s surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America’s founding. From this broad historical perspective, William Casey King deepens our understanding of the American mythos and offers a striking reinterpretation of the introduction to the Declaration of Independence. Through an innovative array of sources and authors—Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, the Geneva Bible, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and many others—King demonstrates that a transformed view of ambition became possible the moment Europe realized that Columbus had discovered not a new route but a new world. In addition the author argues that reconstituting ambition as a virtue was a necessary precondition of the American republic. The book suggests that even in the twenty-first century, ambition has never fully lost its ties to vice and continues to exhibit a dual nature—positive or negative depending upon the ends, the means, and the individual involved.

Author : Emma Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825474

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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by Emma Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr Pdf

Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 081010685X

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Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History by Mary Beth Rose Pdf

Includes essays that focus on the participation of the drama in changing religious and economic systems, along with essays that focus on theater history in the transmission and revision of dramatic sources--Page v.

Author : Paul Whitfield White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856690

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Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660 by Paul Whitfield White Pdf

This book examines theatre and religion in provincial England from the early Tudors to 1660.

Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801470639

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The End of Satisfaction by Heather Hirschfeld Pdf

Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.