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These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre.
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Table of Contents
Introduction - Daniel Cadman, Andrew Duxfield and Lisa Hopkins
1. De Casibus tragedy: Marlowe's
Tamburlaine the Great - Andrew Duxfield
2. Biblical tragedy: George Peele's
David and Bethsabe - Annaliese Connolly
3. Closet tragedy: Fulke Greville's
Mustapha - Daniel Cadman
4. Tragedy of state:
Macbeth - Alisa Manninen
5. Domestic Tragedy: Yarington(?)'s
Two Lamentable Tragedies - Lisa Hopkins and Gemma Leggott
6. Rome and tragic ambivalence: the case of Jonson's
Sejanus - John Curran
7. Satiric tragedy:
The Revenger's Tragedy -Gabriel Rieger
8. Revenge tragedy:
Hoffman - Derek Dunne
9. "Ha, O my horror!" grotesque tragedy in John Webster's
The White Devil - Paul Frazer
10. She-Tragedy: lust, luxury and empire in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's
The False One - Domenico Lovascio
11. Ford's
Perkin Warbeck as historical tragedy - Sarah Dewar-Watson
Caroline tragedy: James Shirley's
The Traitor - Jessica Dyson
Index
About the author
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University
Summary
These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre. -- .
