Tragedies from the Seams of Modernity

This book is an invitation to embed Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy in its historical context: a time of change. Dwelling on Raymond William’s concept of culture as social process, the author reads a selected number of tragedies as being influenced by the conflicting epistemologies of the fading Middle Ages and a dawning modernity. The final catastrophe in <I>Doctor Faustus</I>,<I> The Spanish Tragedy</I>,<I> King Lear</I>,<I> Sejanus his Fall</I> and<I> The Duchess of Malfi</I> is located in the melting pot of rivalling discourses.