Product Description: Analyzing dramas that depict the fall of, or civic upheaval in, urban centers, this work established the author's concept of city tragedy as a subgenre of tragedy in Renaissance theatrical practice. The text traces the different modes of creation of the city as principal character of the tragedy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Tragic Seneca' undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition.

Product Description: The phrase "all is but Fortune" (The Tempest 5.1) expresses both the hope and the resignation that characterize the Renaissance attitude to Fortune that is illustrated and discussed here. Throughout the medieval centuries, the fickle goddess survived in all sorts of literary and artistic sources, ready to be appropriated in traditional as well as innovative ways by the artists and writers of early modern Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book, by one of the most distinguished of contemporary cultural historians, examines the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts from the theatre to the printing-house (and back again) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)