1st Edition
The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama
By Catherine Belsey
Copyright 1985
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism –... Read more
Preface; 1. Introduction: Reading the Past; Part I: Man 2. Unity 3. Knowledge 4. Autonomy; Part II: Woman 5. Alice Arden’s crime 6. Silence and speech 7. Finding a place 8. Conclusion: changing the present; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Catherine Belsey
