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Author Griffin, Andrew, 1978- author.

Title Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe / Andrew Griffin
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Summary "In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologers, and philosophers. In the welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in their frequently conflicting variety. To explore this field of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically-minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of lives and deaths, this book draws on the wider context of the period's culture of history writing."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
History in literature.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
Death in literature
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
History in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487518028
1487518021