TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oppitz-Trotman,George
TI  - The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
SN  - 9781474441711
U1  - 822.309162 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English drama (Tragedy)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - Revenge in literature
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - DRAMA / Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Verge --; Chapter 2 Points --; Chapter 3 A Brief Interlude of Vice --; Chapter 4 Servants --; Chapter 5 Figures --; Chapter 6 Bare Facts, Endless Tragedies --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Investigates the figures and materials of English tragedyKey FeaturesEstablishes a new approach to the relationship between historical performance and printed literatureComplicates the popular concept of metatheatreOffers boldly original readings of important English tragedies like Hamlet and The Spanish TragedyShows how our encounter with difficulty in the reading of revenge plays can be equivalent to an imaginative confrontation with the contradictions of early modern theatrical actionCharting 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474441735?locatt=mode:legacy
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