Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama /
Griffin, Andrew
Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama / Andrew Griffin. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe -- 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy -- 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London -- 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage -- 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy -- Conclusion: “Making Good the Conclusion”: Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period’s culture of historical writing.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487518028
10.3138/9781487518028 doi
Death in literature.
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
History in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
change. early modern drama. early modern dramatists. early modern plays. explanation. historical. matter of trauma. thought. untimely death. writing.
PR658.H5 / G75 2019
822/.309358
Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama / Andrew Griffin. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe -- 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy -- 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London -- 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage -- 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy -- Conclusion: “Making Good the Conclusion”: Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period’s culture of historical writing.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487518028
10.3138/9781487518028 doi
Death in literature.
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
History in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
change. early modern drama. early modern dramatists. early modern plays. explanation. historical. matter of trauma. thought. untimely death. writing.
PR658.H5 / G75 2019
822/.309358