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English Renaissance Tragedy by Peter Holbrook
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This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare’s age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.

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Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature, University of Queensland, Australia and President of the International Shakespeare Association.
Release date Australia
September 24th, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
256
Dimensions
129x198x15
ISBN-13
9781472572806
Product ID
22540320

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