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Book Synopsis The Tragedy of State by : Julius Walter Lever
Download or read book The Tragedy of State written by Julius Walter Lever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1980 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is a problem of the present-day world. In Jacobean tragedy J.W. Lever finds essentially the same problem in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century are seen as giving expression to the ferment of ideas which, only a generation later, precipitated the revolutionary struggles of the 1640s. Some of the major Jacobean tragedies are seen in this book as having a close bearing upon the vital issues of our own age; not only the evils of tyranny but the ambivalent ethics of revolt are explored. When it was first published in 1971, 'The Tragedy of State' presented a challenge to the dominant view of Jacobean tragedy: often interpreted in terms of the Elizabethan World Picture, the drama was held by many in a conservative light. Now increasingly recognized as a forerunner to modern work on the Renaissance, this classic volume has been unavailable in paperback for many years. It is reissued with a new introduction in which Jonathan Dollimore sketches briefly some of the larger critical, intellectual, aesthetic and political issues that concerned Lever and which remain current within contemporary cultural criticism and literary theory. The accompanying references provide students with a guide to recent work which is transforming the study of Renaissance drama.
Book Synopsis The tragedy of state : a study of jacobean drama by : Julius Walter Lever
Download or read book The tragedy of state : a study of jacobean drama written by Julius Walter Lever and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy by : T. B. Tomlinson
Download or read book A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy written by T. B. Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Book Synopsis The Theatre of Civilized Excess by : Anja Müller-Wood
Download or read book The Theatre of Civilized Excess written by Anja Müller-Wood and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage's professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion - their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror - testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners' attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
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 237 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.
Book Synopsis Painted Devils, Siren Tongues by : Justyna Laura Galant
Download or read book Painted Devils, Siren Tongues written by Justyna Laura Galant and published by Mediated Fictions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a semiotic study of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical texts by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lust's Dominion, Markham and Sampson's Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and Fletcher. Combining Bakhtinian concepts with Jurij Lotman's theory of semiosphere, the author offers new readings of eleven tragedies.
Book Synopsis When the Bad Bleeds by : Imke Pannen
Download or read book When the Bad Bleeds written by Imke Pannen and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Download or read book Renaissance Drama written by Sandra Clark and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.
Book Synopsis Tragedies of the English Renaissance by : Goran Stanivukovic
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 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age
Book Synopsis The genres of Renaissance tragedy by : Daniel Cadman
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.
Book Synopsis Jacobean Drama by : Pascale Aebischer
Download or read book Jacobean Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.
Book Synopsis The Making of Jacobean Culture by : Curtis Perry
Download or read book The Making of Jacobean Culture written by Curtis Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of the historical factors shaping the emergence of Jacobean literary culture.
Book Synopsis Tragedies of Tyrants by : Rebecca Weld Bushnell
Download or read book Tragedies of Tyrants written by Rebecca Weld Bushnell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants".
Book Synopsis Webster: The White Devil by : Stephen Purcell
Download or read book Webster: The White Devil written by Stephen Purcell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Devil is one of the great plays of the Jacobean era. In this vibrant Handbook, Stephen Purcell offers an in-depth, performance-focused exploration of John Webster's thrilling, unsettling and darkly comic tragedy. The Handbook includes: - a scene-by-scene commentary on the play as it unfolds on stage - an overview of the play's cultural context - excerpts from historical sources - case studies of four modern productions, featuring interviews with directors - an outline of key critical writings on the play, from the seventeenth century through to today.
Book Synopsis The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy by : Robert Ornstein
Download or read book The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy written by Robert Ornstein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy by : Curtis Perry
Download or read book Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy written by Curtis Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.
Book Synopsis The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama by : Mario DiGangi
Download or read book The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama written by Mario DiGangi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insights from materialist, queer and feminist theory to show the centrality of homoerotic practices.
