Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England
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Antonio's Revenge
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Antonio’s Revenge
Atheist's Tragedy
Atheist’s Tragedy
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Catholic cultural history
Catholic Remembrance
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Dead Man
Dejected Haviour
Early Modern
early modern drama
Early Revenge Tragedies
English Reformation studies
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Funerary Remembrance
funerary rituals
gate
Kyd's Play
Kyd’s Play
Mine Eyes Dazzle
mourning practices
Paul's Playhouse
Paul's Theatre
pauls
Paul’s Playhouse
Paul’s Theatre
playhouse
Popish Tricks
Post-mortem Memorial
religious upheaval in Elizabethan theatre
Renaissance Drama
Revenge Tragedy
saint
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III
spanish
Spanish Tragedy
Sun Shine
theatre and religion
Thomas Playfere
titus
Titus Andronicus
Unstable Irony
Vice Versa
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754661528
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not an anti-Catholic and Reformist genre, but one rooted in, and in dialogue with, traditional Catholic culture. Arguing its tragedies are bound to the age's funerary performances, it provides a new view of the contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period.
Thomas Rist, PhD, is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and is the author of one previous book: Shakespeare's Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation (1999).
