Metropolitan Tragedy : Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442617711
- English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism
- English drama-17th century-History and criticism
- English drama (Tragedy)-History and criticism
- Theater and society-England-London-History
- Literature and society-England-London-History
- Justice in literature
- London (England)-In literature
- London (England)-Social conditions
- PR658.T7.G74 2015eb
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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