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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy

The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1474441718
ISBN13: 9781474441711
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jun 6 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality. It shows how the moral difficulty of revenge in plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi is inseparable from the difficulty of discerning human shapes in the theatre and on the page. Intervening in a wide range of current debates within early modern studies, Oppitz-Trotman argues that the origins of English tragic drama cannot be understood without considering how the common player appears in it.

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