French Origins of English Tragedy
Richard Hillman
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Hardback. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, Hilman focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation between the warrior-hero and the femme fatale.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719082764
SKU
V9780719082764
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About Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Université François-Rabelais, Tours -- .
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