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Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Mathew R. Martin

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Description:Contending that criticism of Marlowe s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. To get started finding Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Contending that criticism of Marlowe s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. To get started finding Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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