...Russ Leo Initially published in 1632, Daniel Heinsius’s tragedy Herodes Infanticida proved surprisingly controversial due to the author’s depiction of Herod’s dream in act 4, where the tyrant’s late wife, Mariamne, and the three Furies (Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera) haunt him from a distinctly...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde . But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian tradition, its theology and liturgy? What are the relations between medieval and early modern discourses...

...Timothy Hampton Duke University Press 2008 a The Tragedy of Delegation: Diplomatic Action and Tragic Form in Racine’s Andromaque Timothy Hampton...

...Paul A. Kottman Shakespeare’s career moves from an explicit concern with theatrical drama to an increasing concern with what John Vyvyan called “the science of life.” This article argues that this increased concern with ethics led Shakespeare to stop writing tragedies. Shakespeare’s plays indeed...

... proves himself to be not only an able and fluent reader and interpreter of tragic theory and tragic practice, but also a savvy critic of the very idea of tragedy — a critic whose final commitment is more to Christian revelation than to any classical notion of tragic experience. The Monk’s massive...

...Patrick Gray Efforts to describe Shakespeare’s tragedies and place them within the history of the genre have been long misled by dubious assumptions about Shakespeare’s secularism dating back to the influence of German Romanticism. The use of concepts drawn from Aristotle’s Poetics has been...

... of horrific come-uppance: usurers eaten by rats, adulterers mutilated, Sabbath-breakers struck dead. Because they were concerned with the consequences of human transgression, these tales drew heavily on the conventions of tragedy. And because they were concerned with vice and come-uppance, they also drew...

...” — is the ideal site to explore this jettisoning of materiality, maternal origin, and all reminders of death and decay. In particular, the essay examines moments of the abject’s revelation in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Middleton’s Revenger’s Tragedy , contending that the discovery space is one way...

... the Passion narrative into neoclassical drama, Christus Patiens raises troubling dramaturgical, ethical, and theological questions about the nature of Christian tragedy and its relation to atonement and conversion. The article traces the complex ways that this play elicits judgments of guilt and innocence...

...Sara Petrosillo This essay examines representations of the womb across late medieval and early modern performance. The N-Town Mary plays and the Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc are separated by less than a century but are rarely examined in light of one another. Using microhistorical methods...

... by a striking dramatization of international “current events” performed in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Reading John Donne's sermons at Heidelberg and the Hague alongside John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's collaborative The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt , this essay...

...Patrick Durdel This essay draws on the prefatory material in Jasper Heywood's translations of three Senecan tragedies— Troas (1559), Thyestes (1560), and Hercules Furens (1561)—to show that a focus on judgment helps to expound Heywood's theory of translation. The judgments envisioned...

... 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 King Lear tragedy language of suffering Incarnation of Christ Assumption of Mary ...

... Folio Tragedie of King Lear begins with the sound of hunting horns, a reminder of the aris- tocratic pursuit par excellence. Lear and his followers are presumably booted and the boots recall that the legs of a monarch, like the legs of his knights, are appropriated legs: the legs of the horse upon...

...: Fortunes of a Genre, Medieval and Early Modern Edited by David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Volume 49 / Number 1 / January 2019 “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian tradition...

... Tragedy: Fortunes of a Genre, Medieval and Early Modern Edited by David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Volume 49 / Number 1 / January 2019 “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian...

... that “this world is in haste and it nears the end. And therefore things in this world go ever the longer the worse.”7 Wulfstan thought that the Antichrist was nigh; Gregory never goes quite that far, but, like Wulfstan, he simulta- neously writes history under the modal aegis of Tragedy, and he moralizes...

... Rethought and rewritten, and in the case of purgatory abandoned altogether as doctrine and practice, the losses and sea-changes of these central notions everywhere mark the tragedy of Hamlet in Greenblatt’s exhilarating reading. The figure will replace the thing itself; the psychic projection...

... of its native subject matter, scholars have long turned to “native” dramatic genres to explain the history play, in contrast to the acknowledged classical roots of tragedy and comedy.1 Each of the three main medieval dramatic traditions — mystery, morality, and saint plays — has been adduced...