English renaissance tragedy /

In English Renaissance Tragedy, Thomas McAlindon provides,for the first time, a comprehensive contextual framework for the studyof the major non-Shakespearean tragedians. Demonstrating thatpre-modern cosmology was fundamentally ambiguous, he argues that itbecame a model for tragic experience.

The book provides a broad perspective together with detailed studiesof the major plays, and it gives special emphasis to the seminalachievements of Kyd and Marlowe. Traditional classifications such asrevenge and domestic tragedy are avoided, and the plays are approachedthrough their shared ideas, preoccupations, and procedures, clarifiedwhere necessary by appeal to their cultural context.