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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear - Goodland, Katharine
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Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, ...

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear 2016, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781138275638

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear 2006, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780754651017

Hardcover