Tragedies from the Seams of Modernity Readings of Five Plays from Kyd to Webster
- List Price: $37.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
- Publish date: 10/15/2005
Description:
This book is an invitation to embed Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy in its historical context: a time of change. Dwelling on Raymond William's concept of culture as social process, the author reads a selected number of tragedies as being influenced by the conflicting epistemologies of the fading Middle Ages and a dawning modernity. The final catastrophe in Doctor Faustus, The Spanish Tragedy, King Lear, Sejanus his Fall and The Duchess of Malfi is located in the melting pot of rivalling discourses.
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