Bøger af Janet Clare

In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed.

In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed.

This is a collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The texts illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.