Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Dollimore, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0710803079 / ISBN 13: 9780710803078

Published by Branch Line, 1982

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Good condition paperback. Covers may have light wear. There will be no loose pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
• Publisher: Branch Line
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710803079
• ISBN 13: 9780710803078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama. The third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new foreword by Terry Eagleton and an extensive new introduction by the author.

Review

"A welcome new edition of a pathbreaking book complete with a brilliantly incisive and thought provoking introduction that will enthuse a new generation of students. With an iconoclastic energy all too rate in academic circles, Dollimore fearlessly revalues his own project and poses questions central to the larger critical, cultural, and philosophical debates within English Studies, to which "Radical Tragedy continues to make a major scholarly contribution."

"A welcome new edition of a pathbreaking book complete with a brilliantly incisive and thought-provoking introduction that will enthuse a new generation of students. With an iconoclastic energy all too rare in academic circles, Dollimore fearlessly revalues his own project and poses questions central to the larger critical, cultural, and philosophical debates within English Studies, to which Radical Tragedy continues to make a major scholarly contribution."--John Drakakis, University of Stirling

"Prefaced by a powerful, provocative essay that brings its argument bang up to date, this splendid new edition of Radical Tragedy puts its status as a classic of cultural-materialist criticism beyond question."--Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London

"Some critical studies are full of insight, but not many of them are necessary. Radical Tragedy ranks among the necessary critical interventions of our time."--Terry Eagleton, from the foreword