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English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom
Peter Holbrook
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Description for English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or heritage reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy ... Read more
This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or heritage reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472572806
SKU
V9781472572806
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About Peter Holbrook
Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature, University of Queensland, Australia and President of the International Shakespeare Association.
Reviews for English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom
[Holbrook's] short readings of individual plays ... are fresh, provocative and frequently illuminating ... There is a great deal to engage readers of all sorts in ... this book and it is much to be welcomed.
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Relies on incisive close readings of individual characters to argue that the tragic genre served as a traditional vehicle ... Read more
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Relies on incisive close readings of individual characters to argue that the tragic genre served as a traditional vehicle ... Read more