Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / by Forman, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night -- The voyage out: Pericles -- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale -- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s -- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado -- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.…”

Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt; 2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show; 3 Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; 4 "A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the Iconography of Slavery; 5 The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's Early Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Denys Arcand's Le déclin de l'empire américain and Les invasions barbares / by Loiselle, André

Table of Contents: “…-- Les invasions barbares -- From an obsession with death to an Oscar -- "Death of a bon vivant" : a tragicomedy in three acts -- Sex, death, and the cinema -- Sex, death, and boredom.…”
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Denys Arcand's Le déclin de l'empire américain and Les invasions barbares / by Loiselle, André, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…-- Les invasions barbares -- From an obsession with death to an Oscar -- "Death of a bon vivant" : a tragicomedy in three acts -- Sex, death, and the cinema -- Sex, death, and boredom.…”
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The novels of Flaubert : a study of themes and techniques. by Brombert, Victor, 1923-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Bouvard et Pécuchet: the tragicomedy of intellect. -- Epilogue.…”
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Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt -- The conjurer recoils : slavery in Richard Pryor's performances and Chappelle's Show -- Conjuring the mysteries of slavery : voodoo, fetishism, and stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- "A comedy of the grotesque" : Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the iconography of slavery -- The tragicomedy of slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's early plays.…”

Works of John Dryden. by Dryden, John

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Three new playes / by Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662

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The Cambridge companion to English Restoration theatre /

Table of Contents: “…Langhans -- The performance / Joseph Roach -- Adaptations and revivals / Michael Dobson -- Comedy / Brian Corman -- Tragedy / Christopher J. Wheatley -- Tragicomedy / Nancy Klein Maguire -- Farce / Peter Holland -- Restoration and settlement: 1660 and 1688 / Derek Hughes -- Change, skepticism, and uncertainty / Jessica Munns -- Drama and political crisis / Susan J. …”

The royal flight, or, The conquest of Ireland : a new farce.

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The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image / by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew: Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets: Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus: Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza: I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist.…”

Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy : from Lear to Leviathan / by Schulman, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I Shakespearean Antiquity ; 1 The Birth of Tragicomedy (in the defeat of Hector by Ulysses); 2 Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II Shakespearean Modernity; 3 King Lear and the State of Nature; 4 Shakespeare's Novus Ordo Seclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; 5 Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds; NOTES; Index.…”
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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage / by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith -- Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello -- Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays -- Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado -- "Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays -- Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.…”
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Cynthia Ozick's comic art : from levity to liturgy / by Cohen, Sarah Blacher

Table of Contents: “…The Messiah of Stockholm and the "Cackle of Satire" -- VIII. The Shawl: The Tragicomedy of Revolt and Survival -- IX. Conclusion: From Low to High Comedy.…”
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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage / by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith -- Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello -- Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays -- Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado -- "Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays -- Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.…”
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The restoration of Arnold Middleton / by Storey, David, 1933-2017

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1611 : authority, gender and the word in early modern England / by Wilcox, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Jonson's Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 -- Aemilia Lanyer and the first fruits of women's wit -- Coryats Crudities and the travelling Wonder of our age -- Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter's Tale and related drama -- Expresse words: Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 -- The Roaring Girl on and off stage -- The New World of Words: authorising translation in 1611 -- Donne's Anatomy and the commemoration of women: Her death hath taught us dearely -- Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy -- Conclusion: This scribling age.…”
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1611 : authority, gender and the word in early modern England / by Wilcox, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Jonson's Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 -- Aemilia Lanyer and the "first fruits" of women's wit -- Coryats Crudities and the "travelling Wonder" of our age -- Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter's Tale and related drama -- "Expresse words": Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 -- The Roaring Girl on and off stage -- "The New World of Words": authorising translation in 1611 -- Donne's "Anatomy" and the commemoration of women: "Her death hath taught us dearely" -- Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy -- Conclusion: "This scribling age"…”

The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image / by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spinoza's Jewish modernities -- Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza : Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets : Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus : Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza : I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist -- Epilogue : Spinoza Redivivus in the twenty-first century.…”
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Comedy of sir william davenant. by Collins, Howard Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Comedy in Davenant's Tragedies and Tragicomedies; Albovine, King of the Lombards; The Cruel Brother; The Siege; The Just Italian; Love and Honour; The Platonick Lovers; The Unfortunate Lovers; The Fair Favourite; The Distresses; The First Day's Entertainment at Rutland House; V. …”
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