The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After: 8 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 036768019X ISBN 13: 9780367680190

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

Riassunto

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the genre.

Individual essays offer important contributions to continuing debates over the role of the drama in the years preceding the Civil War, the colonial contexts of The Tempest, the political character of Jonson’s late plays, and the agency of women as public and theatre actors. The introduction presents a strong challenge to previous definitions of tragicomedy in the English context, and the collection as a whole is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy.

This collection will prove essential reading for all with an interest in the politics of Renaissance drama; for specialists in the work of Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson; for those interested in genre and dramatic forms; and for historians of early Stuart England.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Gordon McMullan, Jonathan Hope

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 036768019X
• ISBN 13: 9780367680190
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: McMullan Gordon, Hope Jonathan
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania