The motif of romantic love in Renaissance Revenge Tragedies

The motif of romantic love in Renaissance Revenge Tragedies
Author: Natalia Gubergritz
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3668640440

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: The concerns of civilized human society from the beginning on until our days have not changed much. The basic problems of mankind and therefore the basic topics literature was written about are religion, love, family and war. English Renaissance drama is no exception to that. One of the most fascinating genres of Shakespeare’s contemporaries is the Revenge Tragedy. It combines revenge plots with love matters and confronts all this with the structure and beliefs of society. One of the motifs the Revenge Tragedy depends on in order to remain absorbing for the audience is the motif of romantic love. Hence this will be the topic of the paper at hand. Further on I will discuss the different aspects of romantic love and analyse their status in Renaissance society and also the representations of this aspects in three of the most important Revenge Tragedies of that time. At first I will look on how love was seen in Renaissance society, and in which way matters of marriage were settled. This topic will be regarded deeper in the second chapter, where the approach to love and marriage will be exemplified on the tragedies. The problem of marriage, particularly unequal and secret marriage will be analysed in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Afterwards I am going to compare the play to Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and see how Kyd handled the Problem of unequal relationships. In chapter 3.3 one of the most important plays in literary history will be analysed on the love relationships of its main characters. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet the romance between the Prince of Denmark and the fair Ophelia is of highest interest to the literary critic. Well, naturally the motif of romantic love does not only include marriage and interpersonal relationships, but also the question of sexuality is quite important. In this paper, I will discuss the dealing with all these topics in the Renaissance tragedies by working closely with the plays in question. As will be found out in the course of the discussion, romantic love, with its different aspects is a crucial motif to every successful Revenge Tragedy.

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642
Author: Fredson Thayer Bowers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 140087730X

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A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

From Revenge to Romance

From Revenge to Romance
Author: James Maguire Assey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1990
Genre:
ISBN:

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Tragedies of the English Renaissance

Tragedies of the English Renaissance
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474419585

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A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
Author: Norbert Kohl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521176538

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Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Author: June Schlueter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134818378

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Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781564781635

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"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare

Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Duncan Salkeld
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719045882

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Staging The Renaissance

Staging The Renaissance
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317949803

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First published in 1992. In the English Renaissance theater, the text is structured by the multiple and complex collaborations that the theater demanded between patrons and players, playwrights and printers, playhouses and playgoers. The essays in this volume attempt to register these collaborations, emphasizing the ways in which the theater is at once responsive to and constitutive of the social formations of Renaissance England. At the same time, these essays recognize that their historical grounding is not unproblematic.