Early modern tragicomedy /
Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European texts.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
D.S. Brewer,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in Renaissance literature, 1465-6310 ;
v. 22. |
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Table of Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTS ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Aristotle and Tragicomedy; 2. The Difficult Emergence of Pastoral Tragicomedy: Guarini's Il pastor fido and its Critical Reception in Italy, 1586-1601; 3. Transporting Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and the Magical Pastoral of the Commedia dell'Arte; 4. The Minotaur of the Stage: Tragicomedy in Spain; 5. Highly Irregular: Defining Tragicomedy in Seventeenth-Century France; 6. In Lieu of Democracy, or How Not to Lose Your Head: Theatre and Authority in Renaissance England; 7. Taking Pericles Seriously
- 8. 'The Neutral Term'?: Shakespearean Tragicomedy and the Idea of the 'Late Play'9. Shakespeare by the Numbers:On the Linguistic Texture of the Late Plays; 10. Turn and Counterturn: Merchanting, Apostasy and Tragicomic Form in Massinger's The Renegado; 11. Dublin Tragicomedy and London Stages; 12. 'Betwixt Both': Sketching the Borders of Seventeenth-Century Tragicomedy; INDEX