Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama - Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. 

About the author

John E. Curran, Jr., is Professor of English at Marquette University.

Summary

Studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. The book argues that we can find in some plays a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action.

Product details

• Authors: Curran, John E. Curran
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781644530511
• ISBN: 978-1-64453-051-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies