Jonathan Dollimore

Radical Tragedy (eBook, PDF)

Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural materialist criticism. The corrected and reissued third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a candid new Preface by the author and features a Foreword by Terry Eagleton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 419
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137086402
• Artikelnr.: 62944237

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN DOLLIMORE was formerly Professor of English at the University of York, UK. His books include Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (with Alan Sinfield, 1985, 2nd ed 1994), Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991), Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998), and Sex, Literature and Censorship (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- Foreword; T.Eagleton.- Preface to the Reissued Third Edition.- Introduction to the Third Edition.- Introduction to the Second Edition.- PART I: RADICAL DRAMA: ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE.- Contexts.- Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c.1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c.1601-2).- PART II: STRUCTURE, MIMESIS, PROVIDENCE.- Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation.- Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis.- The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief.- Dr Faustus (c.1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression.- Mustapha (c.1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology.- Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik.- The Revenger's Tragedy (c.1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp.- PART III: MAN DECENTRED.- Subjectivity and Social Process.- Bussy D'Ambois (c.1604): A Hero at Court.- King Lear (c.1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism.- Antony and Cleopatra (c.1607): Virtus under Erasure.- Coriolanus (c.1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust.- The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without Virtue.- PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY: IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM.- Beyond Essentialist Humanism.- Notes.- Bibliography of Work Cited.- Index of Names and Texts.- Index of Subjects.