The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After

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Gordon McMullan, Jonathan Hope
Routledge, 30 mars 2021 - 224 sidor

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the genre.

Individual essays offer important contributions to continuing debates over the role of the drama in the years preceding the Civil War, the colonial contexts of The Tempest, the political character of Jonson’s late plays, and the agency of women as public and theatre actors. The introduction presents a strong challenge to previous definitions of tragicomedy in the English context, and the collection as a whole is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy.

This collection will prove essential reading for all with an interest in the politics of Renaissance drama; for specialists in the work of Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson; for those interested in genre and dramatic forms; and for historians of early Stuart England.

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List of Contributors
LANGUAGE AND UTOPIA
POLITICAL SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL LIBERTY
TOPICALITY OR POLITICS? THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN 161334
CHASTITY AND TRAGICOMEDY IN
PREREVOLUTIONARY DRAMA
THE RICH CAN SHIFT THE WORLD UPSIDEDOWN AND
HENRIETTA MARIA AND THE THREAT OF THE ACTRESS

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