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

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Acknowledgements Foreword T.Eagleton Preface to the Reissued Third Edition Introduction to the Third Edition Introduction to the Second Edition PART I: RADICAL DRAMA: ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE Contexts Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c.1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c.1601-2) PART II: STRUCTURE, MIMESIS, PROVIDENCE Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief Dr Faustus (c.1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression Mustapha (c.1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik The Revenger's Tragedy (c.1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp PART III: MAN DECENTRED Subjectivity and Social Process Bussy D'Ambois (c.1604): A Hero at Court King Lear (c.1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism Antony and Cleopatra (c.1607): Virtus under Erasure Coriolanus (c.1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without Virtue PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY: IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM Beyond Essentialist Humanism Notes Bibliography of Work Cited Index of Names and Texts Index of Subjects