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Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama / Andrew Griffin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487518028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822/.309358 23
LOC classification:
  • PR658.H5 G75 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

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In English.

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