The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0113 Thursday, 8 February 2007
From: Hannibal Hamlin <
Date: Wednesday, 07 Feb 2007 15:46:03 -0500
Subject: 18.0093 Renaissance Tragedy
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0093 Renaissance Tragedy
I'd strongly recommend Terry Eagleton's Sacred Violence, especially
because it so masterfully surveys and sifts the enormous number of prior
theories about tragedy (as many as there are theorists).
On your last point of interest: does tragedy disappear with the Puritan
revolution (and do you mean during it or after it?)? I suppose with the
closing of the theaters, tragedy is at least taken off the stage, but
then so is everything else. But don't the royalists cast the whole
historical period as tragic? Isn't Eikon Basilike a tragedy of sorts?
Or is it that tragedy and Puritanism are incompatible? But then what to
do with Milton? Leaping ahead in time and across the ocean, isn't The
Scarlet Letter a kind of Puritan tragedy (or tragedy of Puritanism)?
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