A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | T. B. Tomlinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2011-02-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521148276 |
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
The Tragedy of State
Title | The Tragedy of State PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Walter Lever |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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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.
A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1964 |
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A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama"
Title | A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410345122 |
A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Tamburlaine
Title | Tamburlaine PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 140814445X |
One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struck down by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented in two parts crammed with theatrical splendour and equally spectacular cruelty. Marlowe's original audiences were delighted with the blasphemous and ruthlessly ambitious hero; the introduction to this edition discusses the problems that such a character poses for modern audiences and highlights the undercurrents of the play that lead towards a more ironic interpretation.
A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Brian Tomlinson |
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Release | 1986 |
Genre | English drama |
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Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Rex Gibson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2001-01-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780521795623 |
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Tragedies echoed the brutalities and injustices of the time and mirror other features of the age. Exploration was opening up new worlds, the discoveries of science were rapidly expanding knowledge and the country was fiercely divided in matters of religion. Tragedy explores what it is to be human and these anxious, sceptical times fuelled the imagination of Shakespeare and other playwrights. The book considers the tragedies of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and Thomas Middleton and invites the reader to consider how they are still fresh and relevant today.