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

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

by JonathanDollimore (Author), TerryEagleton (Foreword)

Synopsis

Radical Tragedy is both a landmark study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought. The third edition reproduces the original text with the addition of a Foreword by Terry Eagleton, and an extensive new Introduction which argues for the continuing relevance of the tragic aesthetic in today's world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 21 Oct 2003

ISBN 10: 1403904782
ISBN 13: 9781403904782

Author Bio
JONATHAN DOLLIMORE is Professor of English at the University of York. His books include Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (with Alan Sinfield, 1985, 2nd ed 1994), Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991), Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998), and Sex, Literature and Censorship (2000). -