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Title: Tragedies from the Seams of Modernity

Tragedies from the Seams of Modernity

Readings of Five Plays from Kyd to Webster

by Nils-Henje Redenius (Author)
©2006 Thesis X, 151 Pages
English Studies
Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes, Volume 423

Summary

This book is an invitation to embed Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy in its historical context: a time of change. Dwelling on Raymond William’s concept of culture as social process, the author reads a selected number of tragedies as being influenced by the conflicting epistemologies of the fading Middle Ages and a dawning modernity. The final catastrophe in Doctor Faustus, The Spanish Tragedy, King Lear, Sejanus his Fall and The Duchess of Malfi is located in the melting pot of rivalling discourses.

Details

Pages
X, 151
Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631547335
Language
English
Keywords
Jacobean Tragedy Doctor Faustus Social process Culture Marlowe, Christopher Elizabethan Tragedy
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. X, 151 pp.

Biographical notes

Nils-Henje Redenius (Author)

The Author: Nils-Henje Redenius, born in Stadthagen 1975, had spent a year as foreign exchange student in Delaware (USA) before he studied English, Physical Education and Educational Science at the Universities of Marburg and Duisburg-Essen. During his studies, he completed an internship at Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin. After finishing his studies in 2002, he taught literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2004 he started a teacher-training at Otto-Pankok School in Mülheim.

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