The Dramatist and the Received Idea

Sommario

A note on editions; Preface; 1. Literature as history: with some questions about 'historical imagination'; 2. Dramatist as jingoist: The Massacre at Paris; 3. Dramatist as realist: the Jew of Malta; 4. Machiavelli and the crisis of Renaissance political consciousness; 5. Providence and policy in Richard III; 6. Providence and history in Elizabethan thought; 7. History without morality: Edward II; 8. Shakespearean history: critique of 'Elizabethan policy'; 9. Shakespeare's political agnosticism: Richard II; 10. Supernature and demonism in Elizabethan thought; 11. The new wine and the old bottles: Doctor Faustus; 12. Marlowe and the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation; 13. 'An unknown fear': The Tragedie of Macbeth; 14. Macbeth and the theology of evil; 15. Artist and ethos; Appendices; Notes; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sanders, Wilbur Sanders, Jr. Thomas Sanders
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.06.2010
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese
• EAN: 9780521298001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29800-1
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 562 g
• Categorie: English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights