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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew GriffinPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781487503482ISBN 10: 1487503482 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 16 October 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy Conclusion: “Making Good the Conclusion”: Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving Notes Works Cited IndexReviews""English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin’s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It’s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama."" - Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme) ""Andrew Griffin’s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing ‘abrupt’ the dramatic narration."" - Yvonne Bruce (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin's book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It's also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -- Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg * <em>Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme</em> * Author InformationAndrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |