English Renaissance Tragedy

by T. McAlindon

In English Renaissance Tragedy , Thomas McAlindon provides, for the first time, a comprehensive contextual framework for the study of the major non-Shakespearean tragedians. Demonstrating that pre-modern cosmology was fundamentally ambiguous, he argues that it became a model for tragic experience.

Genres: Criticism

269 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1986