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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World (Hardcover)
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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World (Hardcover)
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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist
critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies
human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting
familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp
Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and
Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of
tragedy, irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from
rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to
philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into
causality, probability, necessity, and the terms of human affect
and action. With these resources at hand, poets and critics
produced a series of daring and influential theses on tragedy
between the 1550s and the 1630s, all directly related to pressing
Reformation debates concerning providence, predestination, faith,
and devotional practice. Under the influence of Aristotle's
Poetics, they presented tragedy as an exacting forensic tool,
enabling attentive readers to apprehend totality. And while some
poets employed tragedy to render sacred history palpable with new
energy and urgency, others marshalled a precise philosophical
notion of tragedy directly against spectacle and stage-playing,
endorsing anti-theatrical theses on tragedy inflected by the
antique Poetics. In other words, this work illustrates the degree
to which some of the influential poets and critics in the period,
emphasized philosophical precision at the expense of-even to the
exclusion of-dramatic presentation. In turn, the work also explores
the impact of scholarly debates on more familiar works of
vernacular tragedy, illustrating how William Shakespeare's Hamlet
and John Milton's 1671 poems take shape in conversation with
philosophical and philological investigations of tragedy. Tragedy
as Philosophy in the Reformation World demonstrates how Reformation
took shape in poetic as well as theological and political terms
while simultaneously exposing the importance of tragedy to the
history of philosophy.
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