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French origins of English tragedy.

Summary: Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation betwee.

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ISBN: 0719082765
ISBN: 9780719082764
ISBN: 1781700044
ISBN: 9781781700044
ISBN: 1847793096
ISBN: 9781847793096
Physical Description: 1 online resource (129 pages)
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Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-104) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	9780719082764; 9780719082764; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; 1 Introduction; 2 On the generic cusp:Richard II, La Guisiade and the invention of tragic heroes; 3 Out of their classical depth:from pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors; 4 Staging the Judith jinx: heads or tales?; Works cited; Index.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.