John Banks's Female Tragic Heroes.
In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes , Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cul...
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| Superior document: | Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Banks’s Heroic Dramas
- The Unhappy Favourite and the Reinvention of Tudor England
- From Female Saints to Political Martyrs: Vertue Betray’d, The Innocent Usurper, and the Transformative Power of the Last Dying Words
- Women Take Centre Stage: Lesbian Desire in The Island Queens
- Conclusion: The Legacy of She-Tragedy
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.