Radical tragedy: religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Radical Tragedy is a landmark study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought. The reissued third edition features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author in which he explains his reasons for excluding Othello from his original discussion. The main text has also now been corrected. INDICE: Acknowledgements Foreword; T.Eagleton Preface to the Reissued Third Edition Introduction to the Third Edition Introduction to the Second EditionPART I: RADICAL DRAMA: ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE Contexts Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c.1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c.1601-2) PART II: STRUCTURE, MIMESIS, PROVIDENCE Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis The Disintegrationof Providentialist Belief Dr Faustus (c.1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression Mustapha (c.1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik The Revenger's Tragedy (c.1606): Providence, Parody andBlack Camp PART III: MAN DECENTRED Subjectivity and Social Process Bussy D'Ambois (c.1604): A Hero at Court King Lear (c.1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism Antony and Cleopatra (c.1607): Virtus under Erasure Coriolanus (c.1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without VirtuePART IV: SUBJECTIVITY: IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM Beyond Essentialist Humanism Notes Bibliography of Work Cited Index of Names and Texts Index of Subjects

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24313-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 424
• Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés