Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his ContemporariesBloomsbury Publishing, 2010 M04 9 - 419 pages When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural materialist criticism. The corrected and reissued third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a candid new Preface by the author and features a Foreword by Terry Eagleton. |
Contents
Art and Humanism | |
Humanism and Materialism | |
Marstons Antonio Plays c 15991601 | |
Providence and Natural Law | |
From Resolution to Dislocation | |
Two Concepts of Mimesis | |
The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief | |
Subversion Through Transgression | |
Ruined Aesthetic Ruined Theology | |
History and Realpolitik | |
Returns | |
Knowledge and Desire | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Introduction to the Second Edition | |
Tragedy and Politics | |
ContainmentSubversion | |
Reading Contradictions | |
Marginality | |
Subjectivity or Writing off the Unitary Self | |
God and | |
Contexts | |
Providence Parody and Black | |
Subjectivity and Social Process | |
A Hero at Court | |
King Lear c 16056 and Essentialist Humanism | |
Virtus under Erasure | |
The Chariot Wheel and its Dust | |
Essentialism and Class | |
Transgression Without Virtue | |
Beyond Essentialist Humanism | |
Notes | |
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aesthetic Antonio’s Revenge Antony Antony and Cleopatra argued atheism Bacon becomes belief Brachiano Brecht Bussy challenge chapter Christian Christopher Hill Cleopatra conception condition conflict consciousness contemporary contradiction Coriolanus critique cultural death decentring dislocation displaced divine dominant Dr Faustus Duchess of Malfi effect Elizabethan English English Studies especially Essays essence essential essentialist essentialist humanism evil fact Flamineo gender God’s Greville Greville’s homosexuality humanist idea idealist identity ideology important individual italics Jacobean drama Jacobean tragedy Jonathan Dollimore kind King Lear literary criticism literature London man’s Marxism materialist metaphysical mimesis modern Montaigne moral Mustapha perspective philosophy play play’s political providentialism providentialist question Radical Tragedy Raymond Williams realism reality relation religion Renaissance Revenger’s Tragedy says sceptical Sejanus sense sexual Shakespeare social society soul stoicism structure subversive Terry Eagleton theatre theory things tradition tragic transcendent transgression Troilus truth universal virtue Vittoria Webster women