- Title
- Irony and transcendence on the Renaissance stage
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7067
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007455
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4728
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- This is the concluding essay in a collection entitled 'This Earthly Stage'. The chapter argues that the peculiar task of the stage metaphor - the notion of the theatre as a metaphor for life,which involves complex interactions between rarefied intellectual constructions of life and mundane reality - is to interrogate the tension between an inscrutable cosmic order and the limited viewpoints of ordinary humanity.The piece moves from general considerations of irony and dramatic irony, via an analysis of Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, to comments on Petrarch, Pico and Vives, culminating in a consideration of irony and transcendence in Shakespeare's last plays.
- Format
- 36 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Cursor Mundi (Brepols Online), Wright, L.S. (2010) Irony and Transcendence on the Renaissance Stage. In: 'This Earthly Stage': World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Cursor Mundi (13). Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 279-297., Cursor Mundi (Brepols Online) volume 13 number 2 279 297 2010 type="isbn">978-2-503-53226-4
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Cursor Mundi (Brepols Online) Self-archiving Policy
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