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French Origins of English Tragedy (Paperback)
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Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early
modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with
English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary,
though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare
and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and
non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that
emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s.
These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of
neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the
confrontation between the warrior-hero and the femme fatale. The
broad objective is less to 'discover' influences - although some
specific points of contact are proposed - than at once to enlarge
and refine a common cultural space through juxtaposition and
intertextual tracing. The conclusion emerges that the powerful, if
ambivalent, fascination of the English for their closest
Continental neighbours expressed itself not only in but through the
theatre. -- .
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