English Renaissance Tragedy

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature, University ofQueensland, Australia and President of the International Shakespeare Association.

[Holbrook's] short readings of individual plays ... are fresh, provocative and frequently illuminating ... There is a great deal to engage readers of all sorts in ... this book and it is much to be welcomed.

• Acknowledgements PrefaceChronology of Authors and WorksNote on the TextsPART ONE: TRAGEDY AND FREEDOMIntroductionThe Tragic GenreTragedy: Freedom, Order, and TyrannyFreedom, Tyranny, and Order in the English RenaissanceThe Rhetoric of DisenchantmentGoing to the Theatre in Shakespeare’s LondonPART TWO: PURSUING FREEDOM IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE TRAGEDYGorboducTamburlaine, Parts One and TwoDoctor FaustusThe Jew of MaltaEdward IIArden of FavershamHamletOthelloKing LearAntony and CleopatraThe Revenger’s TragedyThe White DevilThe Duchess of MalfiThe Changeling’Tis Pity She’s a WhoreConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex