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Metropolitan Tragedy : Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442617711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metropolitan TragedyLOC classification:
  • PR658.T7.G74 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Topography, Murder, and Early Modern Domestic Tragedy -- 2 Translatio Metropolitae and Early English Revenge Tragedy -- 3 Tyrant Tragedy and the Tyranny of Tragedy in Stuart London -- 4 Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedydemonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Topography, Murder, and Early Modern Domestic Tragedy -- 2 Translatio Metropolitae and Early English Revenge Tragedy -- 3 Tyrant Tragedy and the Tyranny of Tragedy in Stuart London -- 4 Noise, the Great Fire, and Milton's Samson Agonistes -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedydemonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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