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This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or "heritage" reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chronology of Authors and Works
Note on the Texts
PART ONE: TRAGEDY AND FREEDOM
Introduction
The Tragic Genre
Tragedy: Freedom, Order, and Tyranny
Freedom, Tyranny, and Order in the English Renaissance
The Rhetoric of Disenchantment
Going to the Theatre in Shakespeare's London
PART TWO: PURSUING FREEDOM IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE TRAGEDY
Gorboduc
Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two
Doctor Faustus
The Jew of Malta
Edward II
Arden of Faversham
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Antony and Cleopatra
The Revenger's Tragedy
The White Devil
The Duchess of Malfi
The Changeling
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
