The Tragedy of State

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-23552-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 187 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lever, J. W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Tragedy and State 2. Revenge Drama: Antonio’s Revenge, The Revenger’s Tragedy 3. Chapman: The Bussy Plays 4. Roman Tragedy: Sejanus, Caesar and Pompey 5. Webster: The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi; Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. W. Lever