When the bad bleeds
Mantic Elements in English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy
By (author) Imke Pannen Series edited by Uwe Baumann Series edited by Marion Gymnich Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Hardback (Published)
(September 2010)
ISBN: 9783899716405
6.54 x 9.69 inches
Price: $107.00
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Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger’s Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Dr. Imke Pannen, 1977 in Bielefeld geboren, hat von 1996 bis 2002 in Bonn und Aberdeen Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Geschichte studiert. Nach einem Jahr in York hat sie von 2003 bis 2009 promoviert und ist zur Zeit als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Bonn tätig.
- By (author) Imke Pannen
- Series edited by Uwe Baumann
- Series edited by Marion Gymnich
- Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
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