... of Modern Times: A New Reading of “Don Quijote” (2003). His essays “A Reconsideration of Montaigne's Des Cannibales ” and “Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando Furioso ” appeared in the December 1990 and September 1997 issues of MLQ . The Tragedy of Nobility...

... of amnesty and forgetting on the literature and culture of seventeenth-century France. French Tragedy and the Civil Wars Andrea Frisch Les moeurs d’une nation forment d’abord l’esprit de ses ouvrages drama- tiques. Bientôt ses ouvrages dramatiques forment son esprit. [At first...

... solution of the peculiar edi- torial task with which he was confronted. RICHARDH. PERKINSON Fordhain University English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy, 1575 to 1642. By HENRY HITCHADAMS. New York : Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. x + 191 + 37...

... importance. The mechanical accuracy in even the smallest details is remarkable. URBANT. HOLMES,JR. University of North CuroZitEa French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI and the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792. By H...

... Harvard University Sappho: Tragedy in Five Acts by Frunz Grillparzcr. Translated by ARTHUR BURKHARD.Yarmouth Port, Mass.: The Register Press, 1953. Pp. 99. The Jewess of Toledo; Esther: Dramas by Franz Grillparzcr. Translated by ARTHURBURKHARD. Yarmouth Port, Mass.: The Register...

...Alfred Schwarz Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 AN EXAMPLE OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PATHETIC TRAGEDY: ROWE’S JANE SHORE By ALFREDSCHWARZ When Nicholas Rowe first came to the stage, in 1700, he stood vir- tually alone...

...Kieran M. Murphy Abstract Contemporary actors and, later, historians and critics have long compared the Haitian Revolution to a tragic play. But the model of tragedy they invoke has changed over time. Today the best-known example comes from The Black Jacobins (1963), in which C. L. R. James...

... Faulknerian Tragedy. By WARWICKWADLINGTON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987. 259 pp. $24.95. These two studies of Faulkner are challenging, difficult, and important. They are products of a poststructuralist period of Faulkner criticism; but Warwick Wadlington defines his very...

...Kristina Mendicino The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West . By Weineck Silke-Maria . New York : Bloomsbury , 2014 . x + 208 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 At issue in this book is the father and the tragic...

... and Heroic Tragedy. By TRUSTENWHEELER Rus- SELL. New York : Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. viii + 178. $2.50. The belief that Voltaire’s dramas were influenced chiefly by Shake- speare is denied by this book, which attempts to prove that the connec- tions between Voltaire and Dryden...

...Samuel Schoenbaum © 1954 University of Washington 1954 THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY: JACOBEAN DANCE OF DEATH By SAMUELSCHOENBAUM Writers on the Elizabethan drama have described...

... of those conventionally ascribed to him: the staging of the martyr drama’s soteriological lesson or, in more secular wise, a baroque celebration of theater’s demiurgical powers of illusion. Rotrou reflects instead on the motives behind period reluctance to stage tragedies that draw on recent events...

... at the University of Maryland. Her most recent book is Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion (2015). Her essay “French Tragedy and the Civil Wars” appeared in the September 2006 issue of MLQ . Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French...

...Jennifer Wallace Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy . By Prins Yopie . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . xviii + 297 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 “I read Greek as hard under the trees as some of your Oxonians...

...Robert W. Uphaus W. P. Albrecht. Lawrence, Manhattan, Wichita: University Press of Kansas, 1975. x + 205 pp. $10.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 204 KEVIEWS The Sublime Pleasures oj Tragedy: A Study...

... over a period of several years lie behind the paper. I can, however, see the influence of my colleague Lonnie J. Durham at several points; and I am indebted to Maynard Mack's essay “The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies,” both for its specific ideas...

...Ira Konigsberg Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE TRAGEDY OF CLARISSA By IRAKONIGSBERG Richardson generally thought of Clarissa (1747-48) as a tragedy, and he often defended the novel according to methods and rules...

...Lucy Lawrence Edwin Everitt Williams. Editions XVII Siècle. Cambridge, Mass., 1940. Pp. 35. Cloth $1.50; paper 80 cents. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 318 Reviews Tragedy of Destiny. By EDWINEVERITT WILLIAMS. Editions XVII Sitcle...

.... ALAN6. DESSEN Northwestern University Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience. By ROBERTBECHTOLD HEILMAN.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968. xiii + 326 pp. $8.95. P began reading this book with feelings of considerable enthusiasm. Here...

... University Heinrich uon Kleist: A Study in Tragedy and Anxiety. By JOHN GFAREY. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1968. xviii + 202 pp. $6.95. The central argument of this perceptive book is that Kleist‘s work ema- nates from...