English Renaissance Tragedy - Ideas of Freedom

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Dr Peter (University of Queensland Holbrook, Peter Holbrook, Peter (University of Queensland Holbrook, Peter (University of Queensland) Holbrook
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9781472572806
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7280-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights