Radical tragedy : religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries /: religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Dollimore.
• Other Names: Dollimore, Jonathan
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; T.Eagleton ; Preface to the Reissued Third Edition; Introduction to the Third Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; PART I: RADICAL DRAMA: ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE; Contexts; Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c.1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c.1601-2); PART II: STRUCTURE, MIMESIS, PROVIDENCE; Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation; Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis; The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief; Dr Faustus (c.1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression; Mustapha (c.1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology; Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik; The Revenger's Tragedy (c.1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp; PART III: MAN DECENTRED; Subjectivity and Social Process; Bussy D'Ambois (c.1604): A Hero at Court; King Lear (c.1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism; Antony and Cleopatra (c.1607): Virtus under Erasure; Coriolanus (c.1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust; The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without Virtue; PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY: IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM; Beyond Essentialist Humanism; Notes; Bibliography of Work Cited; Index of Names and Texts; Index of Subjects
• Edition: Reissued 3rd ed
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (419 pages)
• Subjects: 822.05120904; European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Theater/History & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Radicalism in literature; Religion in literature; Tragedies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137203113; 1137203110
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.