Wilbur Sanders, Jr. Thomas Sanders, Jr. Thomas Sanders

The Dramatist and the Received Idea

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical account of seven plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare, and he takes pains to analyse the context in which the plays were written.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521298001
• ISBN-10: 0521298008
• Artikelnr.: 30881020

Inhaltsangabe

A note on editions
Preface
1. Literature as history: with some questions about 'historical imagination'
2. Dramatist as jingoist: The Massacre at Paris
3. Dramatist as realist: the Jew of Malta
4. Machiavelli and the crisis of Renaissance political consciousness
5. Providence and policy in Richard III
6. Providence and history in Elizabethan thought
7. History without morality: Edward II
8. Shakespearean history: critique of 'Elizabethan policy'
9. Shakespeare's political agnosticism: Richard II
10. Supernature and demonism in Elizabethan thought
11. The new wine and the old bottles: Doctor Faustus
12. Marlowe and the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation
13. 'An unknown fear': The Tragedie of Macbeth
14. Macbeth and the theology of evil
15. Artist and ethos
Appendices
Notes
Index.