Metropolitan Tragedy : : Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England / / Marissa Greenberg.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Topography, Murder, and Early Modern Domestic Tragedy -- Chapter Two. Translatio Metropolitae and Early English Revenge Tragedy -- Chapter Three. Tyrant Tragedy and the Tyranny of Tragedy in Stuart London -- Chapter Four. Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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 archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442617711 9783110439687 9783110438673 9783110667691 9783110606812 9783110658781 9783110490930 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442617711 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Marissa Greenberg. |