The Horror Plays of the English Restoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Horror Plays of the English Restoration write by Anne Hermanson. This book was released on 2014. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Horror Plays of the English Restoration write by Anne Hermanson. This book was released on 2016-03-09. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre write by Deborah Payne Fisk. This book was released on 2000-05-11. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes
John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes write by Paula de Pando. This book was released on 2018-08-13. John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes, Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.
Tracing the Heroic Through Gender
Tracing the Heroic Through Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing the Heroic Through Gender write by Carolin Hauck. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Tracing the Heroic Through Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nahezu allen Gesellschaften und Epochen ist das Heroische vielfach gegendert. Die soziale und kulturelle Produktion des Heroischen ist jedoch nicht ausschließlich mit dem Instrumentarium der Männlichkeitsforschung zu fassen, und ebenso wenig scheint es sinnvoll, Frauen bzw. Weiblichkeit in diesem Zusammenhang lediglich als Ausnahmen zu verstehen. Vielmehr gilt es, den relationalen Charakter ernst zu nehmen. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, Geschlecht als analytische Kategorie für die Heroismusforschung fruchtbar zu machen. Auf der Basis vielfältiger geisteswissenschaftlicher Ansätze dient diese Kategorie als 'Spurensucherin' (tracer) des Heroischen und als Instrument zur Untersuchung der historischen Bedingungen, medialen und performativen Erscheinungsformen sowie zeiträumlichen Konjunkturen und Transformationen. Diese gilt es, mit Hilfe der Kategorie Geschlecht und unter Nutzung der zugehörigen Eigenschaften neu auszumessen.
