Peter Holbrook

English Renaissance Tragedy (eBook, ePUB)

Ideas of Freedom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or "heritage" reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472572820
• Artikelnr.: 42885822

Autorenporträt

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). He is the author of Shakespeare's Individualism (2010) and Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare (1994), and co-editor, with David Bevington, of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Chronology of Authors and Works Note on the Texts
PART ONE: TRAGEDY AND FREEDOM Introduction The Tragic Genre Tragedy:
Freedom, Order, and Tyranny Freedom, Tyranny, and Order in the English
Renaissance The Rhetoric of Disenchantment Going to the Theatre in
Shakespeare's London PART TWO: PURSUING FREEDOM IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
TRAGEDY Gorboduc Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two Doctor Faustus The Jew of
Malta Edward II Arden of Faversham Hamlet Othello King Lear Antony and
Cleopatra The Revenger's Tragedy The White Devil The Duchess of Malfi The
Changeling 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index