Radical tragedy

Palgrave Macmillan

2010

ciii, 313 p.

9780230243125

Acknowledgements Foreword; T.Eagleton Preface to the Reissued Third Edition Introduction to the Third Edition Introduction to the Second Edition PART 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 Disintegration of 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 and Black 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 Virtue PART IV: Subjectivity: Idealism versus materialism : Beyond Essentialist Humanism Notes Bibliography of Work Cited Index of Names and Texts Index of Subjects

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