Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy

Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781441137661
ISBN-13 : 1441137661
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy by : Sean Benson

Download or read book Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy written by Sean Benson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. Shakespeare, 'Othello', and Domestic Tragedy is the first book to examine Shakespeare's relationship to the genre by way of the King's and Chamberlain's Men's ownership and production of many of the domestic tragedies, and of the genre's extensive influence on Shakespeare's own tragedy, Othello. Drawing in part upon recent scholarship that identifies Shakespeare as a co-author of Arden of Faversham, Sean Benson demonstrates the extensive-even uncanny-ties between Othello and the domestic tragedies. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy. This book explores not only the contexts and workings of this popular sub-genre of Renaissance drama but also Othello's secure place within it as the quintessential example of the form.


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