TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hillman,Richard
TI  - French origins of English tragedy
SN  - 9781847793096
AV  - PR2823 .F746 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Marlowe, Christopher /
KW  - English drama (Comedy)
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama (Tragedy)
KW  - English literature
KW  - French influences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 9780719082764; 9780719082764; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; 1 Introduction; 2 On the generic cusp:Richard II, La Guisiade and the invention of tragic heroes; 3 Out of their classical depth:from pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors; 4 Staging the Judith jinx: heads or tales?; Works cited; Index; 2; b
N2  - Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation betwee
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