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Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Many critics hold that Shakespeare's King Lear is primarily a drama of meaningful suffering and redemption within a just universe ruled by providential higher powers. William Elton's King Lear and the Gods challenges the validity of this widespread optimistic view. Testing the prevailing view against the play's acknowledged sources, and analyzing the functions of the double plot, the characters, and the play's implicit ironies, Elton concludes that this standard interpretation constitutes a serious misreading of the tragedy.
This book makes a new assessment of the background of Elizabethan tragedy in order to show the importance of embryonic tragic situations, characters, and patterns of emotion in medieval and Tudor drama. It considers how these basic elements were later combined and shaped into effective dramatic forms by current ideas about the nature of tragic action. Tragedy on the Elizabethan stage was by no means a single or homogeneous phenomenon: this study examines the reasons for the appearance of several forms of tragedy at almost the same time. Its concentration upon a limited and well-documented period of stage history makes possible further insight into the nature of tragedy in general. -- from Book Jacket.