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Author Dollimore, Jonathan.

Title Radical tragedy : religion, ideology, and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Jonathan Dollimore
Edition Second edition
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1993
©1989

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 MELB  822.3 D6655/R 1993  AVAILABLE
Description lxviii, 312 pages ; 22 cm
Contents i. Tragedy and Politics. ii. Containment/Subversion. iii. Reading Contradictions. iv. Marginality (1). v. Subjectivity or Writing of/f the Unitary Self. vi. God and Man. vii. Feminism, Sexualities and Gender Critique. viii. The Return to History: Marginality (2). ix. History Reading Theory. x. Reproducing Shakespeare. xi. Shakespeare and Statecraft -- Pt. I. Radical Drama: Its Contexts and Emergence. 1. Contexts. i. Literary Criticism: Order versus History. ii. Ideology, Religion and Renaissance Scepticism. iii. Ideology and the Decentring of Man. iv. Secularism versus Nihilism. v. Censorship. vi. Inversion and Misrule. 2. Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c. 1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c. 1601-2). i. Discontinuous Identity (1). ii. Providence and Natural Law (1). iii. Discontinuous Identity (2). iv. Providence and Natural Law (2). v. Ideology and the Absolute. vi. Social Contradiction and Discontinuous Identity. vii. Renaissance Man versus Decentred Malcontent -- Pt. II. Structure, Mimesis, Providence. 3. Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation. i. Bradley. ii. Archer and Eliot. iii. Coherence and Discontinuity. iv. Brecht: A Different Reality. 4. Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis. i. Poetry versus History. ii. The Fictive and the Real. 5. The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief. i. Atheism and Religious Scepticism. ii. Providentialism and History. iii. Organic Providence. iv. From Mutability to Cosmic Decay. v. Goodman and Elemental Chaos. vi. Providence and Protestantism. vii. Providence, Decay and the Drama. 6. Dr Faustus (c. 1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression. i. Limit and Transgression. ii. Power and the Unitary Soul. 7. Mustapha (c. 1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology. i. Tragedy, Theology and Cosmic Decay. ii. Mustapha: Tragedy as Dislocation. 8. Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik. i. History, Fate, Providence. 9. The Revenger's Tragedy (c. 1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp. i. Providence and Parody. ii. Desire and Death -- Pt. III. Man Decentred. 10. Subjectivity and Social Process. i. Tragedy, Humanism and the Transcendent Subject. ii. The Jacobean Displacement of the Subject. iii. The Essentialist Tradition: Christianity, Stoicism and Renaissance Humanism. iv. Internal Tensions. v. Anti-Essentialism in Political Theory and Renaissance Scepticism. vi. Renaissance Individualism? 11. Bussy D'Ambois (c. 1604): A Hero at Court. i. Shadows and Substance. ii. Court Power and Native Noblesse. 12. King Lear (c. 1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism. i. Redemption and Endurance: Two Sides of Essentialist Humanism. ii. King Lear: A Materialist Reading. iii. The Refusal of Closure. 13. Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1607): Virtus under Erasure. i. Virtus and History. ii. Virtus and Realpolitik (1). iii. Honour and Policy. iv. Sexuality and Power. 14. Coriolanus (c. 1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust. i. Virtus and Realpolitik (2). ii. Essentialism and Class War. 15. The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without Virtue. i. Religion and State Power. ii. The Virtuous and the Vicious. iii. Sexual and Social Exploitation. iv. The Assertive Woman. v. The Dispossessed Intellectual. vi. Living Contradictions -- Pt. IV. Subjectivity: Idealism Versus Materialism. 16. Beyond Essentialist Humanism. i. Origins of the Transcendent Subject. ii. Essence and Universal: Enlightenment Transitions. iii. Discrimination and Subjectivity. iv. Formative Literary Influences: Pope to Eliot. v. Existentialism. vi. Lawrence, Leavis and Individualism. vii. The Decentred Subject
Notes Previously published: 2nd ed. New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989. With a new introd
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [290]-305) and indexes
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. Selections.
English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Religion and literature.
LC no. 93009775
ISBN 0822313987 (paperback: alk. paper)