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Drama General

English Renaissance Tragedy

by (author) T. McAlindon

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1986
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774802536
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $33.95

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Description

In English Renaissance Tragedy, Thomas McAlindon provides, for the first time, a comprehensive contextual framework for the study of the major non-Shakespearean tragedians. Demonstrating that pre-modern cosmology was fundamentally ambiguous, he argues that it became a model for tragic experience.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Thomas McAlindon is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Hull. He is the author of Shakespeare and Decorum.

Editorial Reviews

Any reader is bound to learn something from the careful readings in McAlindon's chapters on Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, The Revenger's Tragedy and Middleton. - TLS