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Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama (Hardcover)
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Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama (Hardcover)
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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.
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