Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Contending that criticism of Marlowe s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma."