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Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy

- Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime
Af: Laurence Publicover Engelsk Hardback

Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy

- Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime
Af: Laurence Publicover Engelsk Hardback
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This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth--operates as a master-image for these plays, it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more-than-human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. Though tightly focused on a specific body of imagery, the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields, including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body, madness, and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic, it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies, including the use of offstage space, intertheatricality, and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally, and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare''s time as concerned more with pity than with fear, the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Changeling.
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This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth--operates as a master-image for these plays, it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more-than-human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. Though tightly focused on a specific body of imagery, the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields, including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body, madness, and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic, it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies, including the use of offstage space, intertheatricality, and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally, and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare''s time as concerned more with pity than with fear, the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Changeling.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780198907084
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0198907087
Kategori: Engelsk
Udg. Dato: 1 okt 2024
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 241mm
Højde: 165mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 1 okt 2024
Forfatter(e): Laurence Publicover
Forfatter(e) Laurence Publicover

Kategori Engelsk

ISBN-13 9780198907084

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 241mm

Højde 165mm

Udg. Dato 1 okt 2024

Oplagsdato 1 okt 2024

Forlag Oxford University Press

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