Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama Contributor(s): Griffin, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487503482 ISBN-13: 9781487503482 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $64.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Drama | Shakespeare - History | Europe - Renaissance |
Dewey: 822.309 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period's culture of historical writing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Griffin, Andrew: - Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |