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- Title
MEMORY OF TRAGEDY IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE.
- Authors
Gibińska, Marta
- Abstract
Exploring the ways ancient ideas circulated and found their way into the Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy reveals a specific tragic vision of the world and man in the universe as early modernity understood them. Discussion of such plays as Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, tragedies of love, history plays, the tragedies of revenge with Hamlet and the great tragedies in terms of the Aristotelian concepts of plot and character, mimesis, pity and fear brings forward the rich and varied context of the Elizabethans' ideas, beliefs, understanding of the world and human fate, as well as their terms of values of Renaissance Christian culture; it points to the politics and social morals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. The social, economic and political realities of the time are related to Bourdieu's concepts of field and habitus to demonstrate the dependence of the refraction of the Aristotelian concepts and the shape of tragic vision on the actual experience of the individual and of society, as well as to open interpretive procedures which stress the relevance of tragedy and tragic vision to the people of the twenty-first century.
- Subjects
TAMBURLAINE the Great (Play : Marlowe); CORIOLANUS (Play : Shakespeare); HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); MARLOWE, Christopher, 1564-1593; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; MEMORY in literature; TRAGEDY (Drama); EARLY modern English drama
- Publication
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture, 2013, Vol 23, Issue 45, p26
- ISSN
0862-8424
- Publication type
Literary Criticism