Screen LibraryMetropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England /
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich a |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references(pages 183-214) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442648807 1442648805 |
| Index Number: | PR658 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/G798-1 |
| Contents: | Topography, murder, and early modern domestic tragedy -- Translatio metropolitae and early English revenge tragedy -- Tyrant tragedy and the tyranny of tragedy in Stuart London -- Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes. |