Metropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England / / Marissa Greenberg
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| Autore: |
Greenberg Marissa <1976->
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| Titolo: |
Metropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England / / Marissa Greenberg
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.05120903 |
| Soggetto topico: | English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
| English drama - 17th century - History and criticism | |
| English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism | |
| Theater and society - England - London - History | |
| Literature and society - England - London - History | |
| Justice in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | London (England) In literature |
| London (England) Social conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Topography, Murder, and Early Modern Domestic Tragedy -- Chapter Two. Translatio Metropolitae and Early English Revenge Tragedy -- Chapter Three. Tyrant Tragedy and the Tyranny of Tragedy in Stuart London -- Chapter Four. Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny.Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Metropolitan tragedy |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-1771-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460587003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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