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English Renaissance Tragedy : Ideas of Freedom by Holbrook, Peter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book’s underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare’s age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.

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Author

Holbrook, Peter

Publisher

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472572806

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction