The theatre of civilized excess : new perspectives on Jacobean tragedy /
Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007
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| Series: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 169. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage's professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and so. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429480987 142948098X 9789401204309 9401204306 904202190X 9789042021907 |
| ISSN: | 0165-9618 ; |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
