The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

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, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.

ISBN 0521734649   Pages 292 ISBN13 9780521734646 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 470 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Companions to Literature Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 01 Aug 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 822.309   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		List of illustrations
		List of contributors
		Preface
		Chronology
PART I		THEMES
1		English Renaissance tragedy: theories and antecedents by Mike Pincombe		3
2		Tragedy, family and household by Catherine Richardson		17
3		Tragedy and the nation state by Andrew Hadfield		30
4		Tragedy and religion by Alison Shell		44
5		Tragedy and revenge by Tanya Pollard		58
6		Tragic subjectivities by Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.		73
7		Tragic forms by Lucy Munro		86
8		Tragedy and performance by Lois Potter		102
9		Renaissance tragedy on film: defying mainstream Shakespeare by Pascale Aebischer		116
10		Shakespeare and early modern tragedy by Emma Smith		132
PART II		READINGS
11		The Spanish Tragedy and metatheatre by Gregory M. Colon Semenza		153
12		Doctor Faustus: dramaturgy and disturbance by Mark Thornton Burnett		163
13		Edward II: Marlowe, tragedy and the sublime by Patrick Cheney		174
14		Arden of Faversham: tragic action at a distance by Mary Floyd-Wilson		188
15		The Revenger's Tragedy: Original Sin and the allures of vengeance by Heather Hirschfeld		200
16		The Tragedy of Mariam: political legitimacy and maternal authority by Mary Beth Rose		211
17		The Changeling and the dynamics of ugliness by Gordon McMullan		222
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