{"product_id":"untimely-deaths-in-renaissance-drama-hardback-9781487503482","title":"Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama (Hardback) 9781487503482","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUntimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Griffin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487503482\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin\u0026amp;#x2019;s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It\u0026amp;#x2019;s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation \/ Renaissance et Réforme\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Griffin\u0026amp;#x2019;s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing \u0026amp;#x2018;abrupt\u0026amp;#x2019; the dramatic narration.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Yvonne Bruce (\u003cem\u003eStudies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, \u003ci\u003eUntimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period\u0026amp;#x2019;s culture of historical writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \u003cem\u003eRichard II\u003c\/em\u003e, Problem Tragedy \u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eA Chaste Maid in Cheapside \u003c\/em\u003eand the Histories of London \u003cbr\u003e3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eDido, Queen of Carthage\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in \u003cem\u003eThe Atheist\u0026amp;#x2019;s Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: \"Making Good the Conclusion\": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595458801944,"sku":"9781487503482","price":35.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/untimely-deaths-in-renaissance-drama-hardback-9781487503482","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}