In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction: Defining the Elephant
- 1 Forms and Media: Remediating Tragedy in Print and Performance
- 2 Sites of Performance and Circulation: Mobile Memes in Renaissance Tragedy
- 3 Communities of Production and Consumption: Networks and Publics of a European Genre
- 4 Philosophy and Social Theory: Murdered Majesty: The Stuarts in Tragedy and Trauerspiel
- 5 Religion, Ritual and Myth: Continuity and Change
- 6 Politics of City and Nation: Tragic Politics: Drama and the City in Early Modern Europe
- 7 Society and Family: “The Deed’s Creature”: Family and Gender in English Renaissance Tragedy
- 8 Gender and Sexuality: Undoing the Tragic Subject
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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