Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His ContemporariesWhen 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. The third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new foreword by Terry Eagleton and an extensive new introduction by the author. |
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Contents
Acknowledgements | ix |
Foreword | x |
Introduction to the Third Edition | xiv |
September 2001 | xvi |
September 1939 | xix |
Art and Humanism | xxii |
Humanism and Materialism | xxv |
Returns | xxvi |
Mustapha c 15946 Ruined Aesthetic Ruined Theology | 120 |
Tragedy as Dislocation | 123 |
Sejanus 1603 History and Realpolitik | 134 |
The Revengers Tragedy c 1606 Providence Parody and Black Camp | 139 |
ii Desire and Death | 143 |
MAN DECENTRED | 151 |
Subjectivity and Social Process | 153 |
i Tragedy Humanism and the Transcendent Subject | 156 |
Knowledge and Desire | xxx |
Notes | xxxv |
Bibliography | xxxvii |
Introduction to the Second Edition | xli |
RADICAL DRAMA ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE | 1 |
Contexts | 3 |
Order versus History | 5 |
ii Ideology Religion and Renaissance Scepticism | 9 |
iii Ideology and the Decentring of Man | 17 |
iv Secularism versus Nihilism | 19 |
v Censorship | 22 |
vi Inversion and Misrule | 25 |
Emergence Marstons Antonio Plays c 15991601 and Shakespeares Troilus and Cressida c 16012 | 29 |
i Discontinuous Identity 1 | 30 |
ii Providence and Natural Law 1 | 36 |
iii Discontinuous Identity 2 | 40 |
iv Providence and Natural Law 2 | 42 |
v Ideology and the Absolute | 44 |
vi Social Contradiction and Discontinuous Identity | 47 |
vii Renaissance Man versus Decentred Malcontent | 49 |
STRUCTURE MIMESIS PROVIDENCE | 51 |
Structure From Resolution to Dislocation | 53 |
ii Archer and Eliot | 56 |
iii Coherence and Discontinuity | 59 |
A Different Reality | 63 |
Renaissance Literary Theory Two Concepts of Mimesis | 70 |
i Poetry versus History | 71 |
ii The Fictive and the Real | 73 |
The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief | 83 |
ii Providentialism and History | 87 |
iii Organic Providence | 90 |
iv From Mutability to Cosmic Decay | 92 |
v Goodman and Elemental Chaos | 99 |
vi Providence and Protestantism | 103 |
vii Providence Decay and the Drama | 107 |
Dr Faustus c 158992 Subversion Through Transgression | 109 |
i Limit and Transgression | 110 |
ii Power and the Unitary Soul | 116 |
ii The Jacobean Displacement of the Subject | 158 |
Christianity Stoicism and Renaissance Humanism | 161 |
iv Internal Tensions | 163 |
v AntiEssentialism in Political Theory and Renaissance Scepticism | 169 |
vi Renaissance Individualism? | 174 |
Bussy DAmbois c 1604 A Hero at Court | 182 |
ii Court Power and Native Noblesse | 185 |
King Lear c 16056 and Essentialist Humanism | 189 |
Two Sides of Essentialist Humanism | 191 |
A Materialist Reading | 195 |
iii The Refusal of Closure | 202 |
Antony and Cleopatra c 1607 Virtus under Erasure | 204 |
i Virtus and History | 206 |
ii Virtus and Realpolitik I | 207 |
iii Honour and Policy | 213 |
iv Sexuality and Power | 215 |
Coriolanus c 1608 The Chariot Wheel and its Dust | 218 |
ii Essentialism and Class War | 222 |
The White Devil 1612 Transgression Without Virtue | 231 |
ii The Virtuous and the Vicious | 232 |
iii Sexual and Social Exploitation | 235 |
iv The Assertive Woman | 239 |
v The Dispossessed Intellectual | 242 |
vi Living Contradictions | 244 |
SUBJECTIVITY IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM | 247 |
Beyond Essentialist Humanism | 249 |
i Origins of the Transcendent Subject | 250 |
ii Essence and Universal Enlightenment Transitions | 253 |
iii Discrimination and Subjectivity | 256 |
Pope to Eliot | 258 |
v Existentialism | 262 |
vi Lawrence Leavis and Individualism | 264 |
vi The Decentred Subject | 269 |
Notes | 272 |
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| Title | Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries |
| Author | Jonathan Dollimore |
| Contributor | Jonathan Dollimore |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0822333473, 9780822333470 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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