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Charismatic authority in early modern English tragedy

Title: Charismatic authority in early modern English tragedy / Raphael Falco.
Author: Falco, Raphael, 1952-
Publication: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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x, 243 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Charismatic groups form around a leader who displays extraordinary abilities in times of social distress and who is often thought to have supernatural or magical powers. Raphael Falco demonstrates that English tragedies are full of such figures. Most charisma is at first revolutionary, challenging traditional or bureaucratic forms of authority. But sooner or later groups that depend on the pure or personal charisma of a central figure begin to change, even to break down.
Tragedies often focus on this difficult process of charismatic transformation - a process, Falco argues, that is best understood not in terms of a single tragic figure but as a group experience."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.

Contents

Introduction: From Charisma to Tragedy -- 1. Revolution to Routinization: Tamburlaine's Pure Charisma -- 2. Charismas in Conflict: Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke -- 3. Individuation as Disintegration: Hamlet and Othello -- 4. Charisma as Catastrophe: Samson's Gift -- 5. Erotic Charisma: The Tragedies of Cleopatra.

ISBN

0801862809 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99038767

OCLC

ocm41834568
SCSB-3842070

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Columbia University Libraries