Subha Mukherji & Raphael Lyne 
Early Modern Tragicomedy 

Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside Irish and European drama.


Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to Shakespeare and his contemporaries — to the origins of mixed genre in English, to the development of Shakespearean and Fletcherian drama, to periodization in Shakespeare’s career, to the language of tragicomedy, and to the theological structure of genre. The collection concludes with two essays on Irish theatre and its interactions with the London stage, further evidence of the persistent and changing energy of tragicomedy in the period.


Contributors: SARAH DEWAR-WATSON, MATTHEW TREHERNE, ROBERT HENKE, GERAINT EVANS, NICHOLAS HAMMOND, ROSKING, SUZANNE GOSSETT, GORDAN MCMULLAN, MICHAEL WINMORE, JONATHAN HOPE, MICHAEL NEILL, LUCY MUNRO, DEANA RANKIN

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Aristotle and Tragicomedy – Sarah Dewar-Watson

The Difficult Emergence of Pastoral Tragicomedy: Guarini’s
Il Pastor Fido and its Critical Reception in Italy, 1586-1601 – Matthew Trehrene

Transporting Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and the Magical Pastoral of the Commedia dell’Arte – Robert Henke

The Minotaur of the Stage: Tragicomedy in Spain – Geraint Evans

Highly Irregular: Defining Tragicomedy in Seventeenth-Century France – Nick Hammond

In Lieu of Democracy, or How Not to Lose Your Head: Theatre and Authority in Renaissance England – Ros King

Taking
Pericles Seriously – Suzanne Gossett

`The Natural Term?‘: Shakespearean Tragicomedy and the Idea of the `Late Play‘ – Gordon Mc Mullan

Shakespeare by the Numbers: On the Linguistic Texture of the Late Plays – Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore

Turn and Counterturn: Merchanting, Apostasy and Tragicomic Form in Massinger’s
The Renegado – Michael Neill

Dublin Tragicomedy and London Stages – Lucy Munro

`Betwixt Both‘: Sketching the Borders of Seventeenth-Century Tragicomedy – Deana Rankin