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Divided into two parts - concepts and movements - the structure is
clear and accessible. Each chapter builds on the material presented
in the previous chapters, allowing the reader to progress from
little or no background in psychoanalysis, philosophy or literary
theory to the ability to engage actively with the relatively
sophisticated ideas presented in later sections of the work.
Provides a complete and clear introduction to psychoanalytic
literary criticism.
Divided into two parts - concepts and movements - the structure is
clear and accessible. Each chapter builds on the material presented
in the previous chapters, allowing the reader to progress from
little or no background in psychoanalysis, philosophy or literary
theory to the ability to engage actively with the relatively
sophisticated ideas presented in later sections of the work.
Provides a complete and clear introduction to psychoanalytic
literary criticism.
Contending that criticism of Marlowe's plays has been limited by
humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma
theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh
critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in
Marlowe's plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author
argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of
wounding; however, in Marlowe's plays, a traumatic aesthetics
disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin's fresh
reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics
as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the
conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic
aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern
period's most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre
of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe's six
other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe's drama tragedy
is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.
Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial
moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in
British theater: the establishment of secular and professional
theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction
with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing
efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the
eighteenth century. From the often brutal spectacle of late
medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of
eighteenth-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, the essays
take up the significance of these watershed moments in British
theater and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain: what and
how pain means, how such meaning can be embodied, how such
embodiment can be dramatized, and how such dramatizations can be
put to use and made meaningful in a variety of contexts. Grouped
thematically, the essays interrogate individual plays and important
topics in terms of the volume's overriding concerns, among them
Tamburlaine and The Maid's Tragedy, revenge tragedy, Joshua
Reynolds on public executions, King Lear, Settle's Moroccan plays,
spectacles of injury, torture, and suffering, and Joanna Baillie's
Plays on the Passions. Collectively, these essays make an important
contribution to the increasingly interrelated histories of pain,
the body, and the theater.
Contending that criticism of Marlowe's plays has been limited by
humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma
theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh
critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in
Marlowe's plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author
argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of
wounding; however, in Marlowe's plays, a traumatic aesthetics
disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin's fresh
reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics
as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the
conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic
aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern
period's most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre
of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe's six
other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe's drama tragedy
is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's
explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons,
and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's
critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the
play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English
Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction
examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and
poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its
forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and
sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning
and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of
the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place
the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's
edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of
Peele's powerful and disturbing drama. -- .
This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's
critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic
episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of
French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and
intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a
tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience
the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics,
and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing
full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently
neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful
play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such
topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its
sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's
exploration of notions of religious toleration. -- .
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Selimus (Paperback)
Robert Greene; Edited by Mathew R. Martin
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R634
Discovery Miles 6 340
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This Broadview Edition of Robert Greene's Selimus is the first
single-volume, modernized edition of this underrated dramatic gem
in over a century. First published in 1594, the play grippingly
stages the bloody fratricidal warfare inaugurating the reign of
Selim I (1512-20) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire. Contributing to
the expansion of the range of readily available non-Shakespearean
early modern English plays, the edition is designed for scholars
and students alike, in the study, classroom, or theatre. The
critically edited text of the play is accompanied by a full
introduction, comprehensive annotations, and ample contextual
material from the early modern period, including Greene's pamphlet
Greene's Groatsworth of Wit.
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's
explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons,
and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's
critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the
play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English
Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction
examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and
poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its
forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and
sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning
and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of
the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place
the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's
edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of
Peele's powerful and disturbing drama. -- .
Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two are the first plays that
Christopher Marlowe wrote for London's then new freestanding,
open-air public playhouses. They trace the progress of Tamburlaine,
a Central Asian leader, as he "scourge[s] kingdoms with his
conquering sword" and rises to imperial power. The plays began
Marlowe's brief career as a public theatre dramatist with a bang:
the brutally masculine and martial main character immediately
captured audiences and the plays were widely imitated and parodied.
Even four hundred years later, Marlowe's Tamburlaine remains a
shocking and seductive figure. The introduction and historical
appendices to this new Broadview Edition provide many avenues for
readers to understand these plays, presenting other portrayals of
Islam from the period, related lives of Tamburlaine from other
writers, and material on Marlowe's scandalous reputation.
Christopher Marlowe's most famous play exists in multiple versions,
and scholars are still struggling to untangle the relationships
among the different texts of the play. Though the copy text for
this edition is the 1616 edition (B1), Appendix A reproduces four
scenes and a chorus from the A-text, all of which differ
substantially from their B-text analogues, along with the Sultan of
Babylon scene from the 1663 edition of the play (B7). Readers can
thus observe the mutations of the play Doctor Faustus (as well as
the character of Faustus) through the course of early modern
English theatre and culture. The introduction and appendices to
this Broadview Edition provide a wealth of materials on Marlowe's
life and work, the Faust tradition in Europe and Britain, magic and
witchcraft, and the Protestant Reformation.
Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence
of its central characters' fates, Edward the Second broke new
dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise
and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his
favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen
Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as
dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and
fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but
student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix
material, including extended selections from Marlowe's historical
sources, texts bearing on the play's complex sexual and political
dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton's
epic rendition of Edward the Second's reign.
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