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- Title
Pent-Up Emotions: Pity and the Imprisonment of Women in Renaissance Drama.
- Authors
Collington, Philip D.
- Abstract
The article discusses the emotional response of theater audiences to women prisoners in English plays. Several factors affected the audience's response, including age and social class. The derision generated onstage by several plays, including "Tamburlaine the Great" and "The Duchess of Malfi," is compared. The author discusses the works of William Shakespeare and Thomas Heywood, and their ability to dramatize positive cathartic functions of affect.
- Subjects
PERFORMING arts audiences; WOMEN prisoners in literature; THEATER audiences; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; HEYWOOD, Thomas, d. 1641; EARLY modern English drama; DRAMA criticism; TAMBURLAINE the Great (Play : Marlowe); DUCHESS of Malfi, The (Play : Webster); SYMPATHY; PSYCHOLOGY; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2003, Vol 16, p162
- ISSN
0731-3403
- Publication type
Literary Criticism