Tragedies from the seams of modernity : readings of five plays from Kyd to Webster / Nils-Henje Redenius.
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| Author / Creator: | Redenius, Nils-Henje. |
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2006. |
| Description: | 151 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature ; v. 423 = Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 423 Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 423. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6629733 |
| Summary: | This book is an invitation to embed Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy in its historical context: a time of change. Dwelling on Raymond William's concept of culture as social process, the author reads a selected number of tragedies as being influenced by the conflicting epistemologies of the fading Middle Ages and a dawning modernity. The final catastrophe in Doctor Faustus, The Spanish Tragedy, King Lear, Sejanus his Fall and The Duchess of Malfi is located in the melting pot of rivalling discourses. |
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| Physical Description: | 151 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0820498327 (U.S. : pbk.) 9780820498324 (U.S. : pbk.) 3631547331 (Eur.) 9783631547335 (Eur.) |
