Six Renaissance Tragedies
by Colin Gibson
Category: Literary Criticism

Skipping the works of Shakespeare and Johnson (which are readily accessible), the six plays discussed here have been chosen to represent a remarkable flowering of tragic dramatic writing during one of the most prolific periods of theatrical activity, that known as the English Renaissance, from about 1590 to 1640. each play was a major work for its author, a major drama for the period, and still significant today.