Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Routledge; Ashgate
Published: April 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780754661528
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Drama; Literary Criticism; English
Description: "Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examining the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not an anti-Catholic and Reformist genre, but one rooted in, and in dialogue with, traditional Catholic culture. Arguing its tragedies are bound to the age's funerary performances, it provides a new view of the contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period."--BOOK JACKET.