Early Modern TragicomedyTragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- to the origins of mixed genre in English, to the development of Shakespearean and Fletcherian drama, to periodization in Shakespeare's career, to the language of tragicomedy, and to the theological structure of genre. The collection concludes with two essays on Irish theatre and its interactions with the London stage, further evidence of the persistent and changing energy of tragicomedy in the period. Contributors: SARAH DEWAR-WATSON, MATTHEW TREHERNE, ROBERT HENKE, GERAINT EVANS, NICHOLAS HAMMOND, ROS KING, SUZANNE GOSSETT, GORDAN MCMULLAN, MICHAEL WINMORE, JONATHAN HOPE, MICHAEL NEILL, LUCY MUNRO, DEANA RANKIN |
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Contents
Aristotle and Tragicomedy | 15 |
Guarinis | 28 |
Shakespeare and the Magical Pastoral | 43 |
Tragicomedy in Spain | 59 |
Defining Tragicomedy in SeventeenthCentury | 76 |
Taking Pericles Seriously | 101 |
Shakespearean Tragicomedy and | 115 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Early Modern Tragicomedy Volume 22 of Studies in Renaissance literature |
| Editors | Subha Mukherji, Raphael Lyne |
| Publisher | DS Brewer, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1843841304, 9781843841302 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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