The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 12 August 2010

Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 29 September 1988

This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 05 October 2012

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 14 May 1997

Issues of Death offers a fresh approach to the tragic drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Starting from the premise that "death" is a historical construct that is differently experienced

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 30 April 2016

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

• Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
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• Release Date : 01 January 2014

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 24 September 2015

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

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 02 March 2017

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially

• Publisher : Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists
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• Release Date : 14 May 2024

This book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642. It traces the astonishingly diverse

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 12 August 2010

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,