Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Aristotle and Tragicomedy
- 2 The Difficult Emergence of Pastoral Tragicomedy: Guarini's Il pastor fido and its Critical Reception in Italy, 1586–1601
- 3 Transporting Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and the Magical Pastoral of the Commedia Dell'arte
- 4 The Minotaur of the Stage: Tragicomedy in Spain
- 5 Highly Irregular: Defining Tragicomedy in Seventeenth-Century France
- 6 In Lieu of Democracy, or How Not To Lose Your Head: Theatre and Authority in Renaissance England
- 7 Taking Pericles Seriously
- 8 ‘The Neutral Term’?: Shakespearean Tragicomedy and the Idea of the ‘Late Play’
- 9 Shakespeare by the Numbers: On the Linguistic Texture of the Late Plays
- 10 Turn and Counterturn: Merchanting, Apostasy and Tragicomic Form in Massinger's The Renegado
- 11 Dublin Tragicomedy and London Stages
- 12 ‘Betwixt Both’: Sketching the Borders of Seventeenth-Century Tragicomedy
- Index
- Studies in Renaissance Literature
Studies in Renaissance Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Aristotle and Tragicomedy
- 2 The Difficult Emergence of Pastoral Tragicomedy: Guarini's Il pastor fido and its Critical Reception in Italy, 1586–1601
- 3 Transporting Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and the Magical Pastoral of the Commedia Dell'arte
- 4 The Minotaur of the Stage: Tragicomedy in Spain
- 5 Highly Irregular: Defining Tragicomedy in Seventeenth-Century France
- 6 In Lieu of Democracy, or How Not To Lose Your Head: Theatre and Authority in Renaissance England
- 7 Taking Pericles Seriously
- 8 ‘The Neutral Term’?: Shakespearean Tragicomedy and the Idea of the ‘Late Play’
- 9 Shakespeare by the Numbers: On the Linguistic Texture of the Late Plays
- 10 Turn and Counterturn: Merchanting, Apostasy and Tragicomic Form in Massinger's The Renegado
- 11 Dublin Tragicomedy and London Stages
- 12 ‘Betwixt Both’: Sketching the Borders of Seventeenth-Century Tragicomedy
- Index
- Studies in Renaissance Literature
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- Early Modern Tragicomedy , pp. 217 - 218Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007