English renaissance tragedy /
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| Author / Creator: | McAlindon, T. (Thomas) |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1986. |
| Description: | xiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/701593 |
| Summary: | This book provides a broad introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time; in particular, it argues that the pre-modern conception of the cosmos as a dynamic but tense system of contrary forces provided the dramatists with a model of tragic experience. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-263). |
| ISBN: | 0333387457 |