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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465361003321

Autore

Hillman Richard <1949->

Titolo

French origins of English tragedy [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Hillman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010

ISBN

1-78170-004-4

1-84779-309-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Disciplina

822.05120903

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

English drama (Tragedy) - French influences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-104) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; 1 Introduction; 2 On the generic cusp:Richard II, La Guisiade and the invention of tragic heroes; 3 Out of their classical depth:from pathos to bathos in early English tragedy;  or, the comedy of terrors; 4 Staging the Judith jinx: heads or tales?; Works cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590's and early 1600's. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation betwee