The Ethics of Jacobean Tragedy
Author: Robert Ornstein
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 444
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Author: Robert Ornstein
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T F Wharton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-03-22
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1349191523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. W. Lever
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 100063955X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a
Author: Irving Ribner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-31
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1315302136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author: Robert Ornstein
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1975-03-18
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521148276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author: Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9401204306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author: Maria Liatsi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 3110699613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.
Author: Joan L Hall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991-10-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1349216526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.
Author: Noam Reisner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-06-30
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 100946244X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.