Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.
Contents:
Part one: Tragedy and freedom. The tragic genre -- Tragedy: freedom, order and tyranny -- Freedom, tyranny and order in the English Renaissance -- The rhetoric of disenchantment -- Going to the theatre in Shakespeare's London -- Part two: Pursuing freedom in English Renaissance tragedy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. Tamburlaine, parts one and two -- Doctor Faustus -- The jew of Malta -- Edward II -- Arden of Faversham -- Hamlet -- Othello -- King Lear -- Antony and Cleopatra -- The revenger's tragedy -- The white devil -- The duchess of Malfi -- The changeling -- 'Tis pity she's a whore.
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