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Metropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England
- Title
- Metropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England / Marissa Greenberg.
- Author
- Greenberg, Marissa, 1976-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history. --Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism
- Theater and society > England > London > History
- Literature and society > England > London > History
- Justice in literature
- Théâtre anglais > 1500-1600 (Moderne et élisabéthain) > Histoire et critique
- Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Tragédie anglaise > Histoire et critique
- Théâtre et société > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire
- Littérature et société > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire
- Justice dans la littérature
- English drama
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
- English drama (Tragedy)
- Literature
- Literature and society
- Social conditions
- Theater and society
- Englisch
- Tragödie
- Stadt
- London
- London (England) > In literature
- London (England) > Social conditions > 16th century
- Londres (Angleterre) dans la littérature
- Londres (Angleterre) > Conditions sociales > 16e siècle
- England > London
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Topography, murder, and early modern domestic tragedy -- Translatio metropolitae and early English revenge tragedy -- Tyrant tragedy and the tyranny of tragedy in Stuart London -- Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-6902
- ISBN
- 9781442648807
- 1442648805
- LCCN
- 2015410833
- OCLC
- 897352641
- Author
- Greenberg, Marissa, 1976- author.
- Title
- Metropolitan tragedy : genre, justice, and the city in early modern England / Marissa Greenberg.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-6902