When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural materialist criticism. The corrected and reissued third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a candid new Preface by the author and features a Foreword by Terry Eagleton.
Radical Tragedy is a landmark study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought. The reissued third edition features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author in which he explains his reasons for excluding Othello from his original discussion. The main text has also now been corrected.
A classic theory text which is widelyused in undergraduate study of the subject
The reissued third edition features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author in which he openly explains his reasons for excluding discussion of Othello from the original work
Author is a very well known writer and critic
Jonathan Dollimore
drama King Lear literary theory Renaissance structure William Shakespeare