Tragedies of the English Renaissance

Goran Stanivukovic is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Chair of Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. His most recent publications include, as author, Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 (University of Toronto Press, 2016); as editor, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). John H. Cameron teaches English Literature at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. His primary research and teaching interests are early modern English drama. His most recent publications include book chapters on Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as encyclopedia entries on Mario Vargas Llosa and on Julio Cortáar. He is currently preparing two monographs, one a history of Shakespeare’s reception in France and the other a critical history of Hamlet.

Stanivukovic and Cameron’s history of tragedy in early modern London playing spaces offers an admirably clear introduction to a complex genre. It is particularly good on the relation of tragedy to the religious uncertainty of the period. Sound, scholarly, and detailed, this is a book that will be invaluable to students.

• Note on citationChronology iIntroduction 11 The Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy and the London Stage 402 Late Elizabethan Tragedy 863 Early Jacobean Tragedy 1334 Late Jacobean Tragedy 1605 Caroline Tragedy 197Bibliography 230