Marlovian Tragedy

Author : Troni Y. Grande
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753743
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlovian Tragedy written by Troni Y. Grande and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-visioning of the Marlowe canon aims to explain the ambiguous effects that readers have long associated with Marlowe's signature. Marlovian tragedy has been inadequately theorized because Marlowe has too often been set under the giant shadow of Shakespeare. Grande, by contrast, takes Marlowe on his own terms and demonstrates how he achieves his notorious moral ambiguity through the rhetorical technique of dilation or amplification. All of Marlowe's plays end in the conventional tragic way, with death. But each play, as well as Hero and Leander, repeatedly evokes the reader's expectations of a tragic end only to defer them, dilating the moment of pleasure so that the protagonists can dally before the "law" of tragedy.

Author : Mathew R. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317008383
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe written by Mathew R. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Yachnin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280939X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stage-Wrights written by Paul Yachnin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who wrote plays for money, to be performed in common playhouses and in a manner often antithetical to what Jonson himself viewed as the higher calling of poetry. In response to the conflicting pressures of censorship and commercialism, Paul Yachnin contends, players and dramatists alike had promulgated the idea of drama's irrelevance, creating a recreational theater that failed to influence its audience in any purposeful way. In Stage-Wrights Yachnin shows how Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton struggled to reclaim not only the importance of their art, but their own social legitimacy as well as through the reshaping of the commercial theater. His bold readings of their works unveil the strategies by which they sought power from their privileged but powerless position on the margins. Adopting a hermeneutical approach, he explores a wide range of historical evidence to describe how English Renaissance drama depicted the world in ways refracted by the interests of the playing companies; throughout, he challenges recent historicist models that have overrated the importance of dramatic productions to society and its institutions of authority. Paul Yachnin offers a new way of understanding dramatic texts in relation to their social history. In showing how the efforts of three playwrights helped shape the area of discourse we now call "the literary," Stage-Wrights represents both a major rereading of the place of theater in Shakespeare's London and an important clarification of the social context of contemporary criticism.

Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315302136
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacobean Tragedy written by Irving Ribner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982547X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Daniel Cadman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526138271
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The genres of Renaissance tragedy written by Daniel Cadman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre.

Author : Patrick Gerard Cheney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802009719
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession written by Patrick Gerard Cheney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlowe was the first writer to the translate the Amores, and thus the first to make the Ovidian cursus literally his own.

Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113704957X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama written by N. Liebler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

Author : Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474419585
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedies of the English Renaissance written by Goran Stanivukovic and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075404
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rival Playwrights written by James Shapiro and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: