English Renaissance Tragedy

Ideas of Freedom

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvPeter Holbrook,Australia) Holbrook, Dr Peter (University of Queensland

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This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare’s age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-09-24
Mått126 x 196 x 14 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472572806

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Acknowledgements PrefaceChronology of Authors and WorksNote on the TextsPART ONE: TRAGEDY AND FREEDOMIntroductionThe Tragic GenreTragedy: Freedom, Order, and TyrannyFreedom, Tyranny, and Order in the English RenaissanceThe Rhetoric of DisenchantmentGoing to the Theatre in Shakespeare’s LondonPART TWO: PURSUING FREEDOM IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE TRAGEDYGorboducTamburlaine, Parts One and TwoDoctor FaustusThe Jew of MaltaEdward IIArden of FavershamHamletOthelloKing LearAntony and CleopatraThe Revenger’s TragedyThe White DevilThe Duchess of MalfiThe Changeling’Tis Pity She’s a WhoreConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex