French origins of English tragedy /
Author / Creator: | Hillman, Richard, 1949- |
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Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
Description: | 111 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8271543 |
Summary: | Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation between the warrior-hero and the femme fatale. |
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Physical Description: | 111 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-104) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780719082764 (hbk.) 0719082765 (hbk.) |