Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9780230243132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 419 str.

Jonathan Dollimore

Opis

Radical Tragedy is a landmark study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought. The reissued third edition features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author in which he explains his reasons for excluding Othello from his original discussion. The main text has also now been corrected.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).

Blurb

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.