Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe / Andrew Griffin.
Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe / Andrew Griffin.
Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe / Andrew Griffin.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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G 2020/2621
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English
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ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Biography, history, catastrophe -- "Richard II", problem tragedy -- "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" and the histories of London -- Epic tragedies in Marlowe's :Dido, Queen of Carthage" -- Military catastrophe and elegiac history in "The Atheist's Tragedy" -- Conclusion: 'Making good the c...
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Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Ontario
Date Published
[2019]
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"In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologers, and philosophers. In the welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change coul...
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Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe / Andrew Griffin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
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G 2020/2621
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74VKaPxRkXzX
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1487503482 hardcover
9781487503482 hardcover
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822.309358
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991024315914302626
