Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy Conclusion: "Making Good the Conclusion": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving NotesWorks CitedIndex

"English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin’s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It’s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama."- Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme) "Andrew Griffin’s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing ‘abrupt’ the dramatic narration." - Yvonne Bruce (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching)

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy Conclusion: "Making Good the Conclusion": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving NotesWorks CitedIndex

"English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin’s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It’s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama."- Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme) "Andrew Griffin’s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing ‘abrupt’ the dramatic narration." - Yvonne Bruce (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching)

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy Conclusion: "Making Good the Conclusion": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving NotesWorks CitedIndex

"English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin’s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It’s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama."- Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme) "Andrew Griffin’s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing ‘abrupt’ the dramatic narration." - Yvonne Bruce (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching)