English Renaissance Tragedy
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English Renaissance Tragedy

Ideas of Freedom

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English Renaissance Tragedy

Ideas of Freedom

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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.

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Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Year
2015
ISBN
9781472572837
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Related Titles
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. Chronology of Authors and Works
  11. Note on the Texts
  12. Part One: Tragedy and Freedom
  13. Introduction
  14. 1 The Tragic Genre
  15. 2 Tragedy: Freedom, Order and Tyranny
  16. 3 Freedom, Tyranny and Order in the English Renaissance
  17. 4 The Rhetoric of Disenchantment
  18. 5 Going to the Theatre in Shakespeare’s London
  19. Part Two: Pursuing Freedom in English Renaissance Tragedy
  20. 6 Gorboduc
  21. 7 Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two
  22. 8 Doctor Faustus
  23. 9 The Jew of Malta
  24. 10 Edward II
  25. 11 Arden of Faversham
  26. 12 Hamlet
  27. 13 Othello
  28. 14 King Lear
  29. 15 Antony and Cleopatra
  30. 16 The Revenger’s Tragedy
  31. 17 The White Devil
  32. 18 The Duchess of Malfi
  33. 19 The Changeling
  34. 20 ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
  35. Conclusion
  36. Notes
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index