Dollimore, Jonathan

Radical Tragedy : Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Acknowledgements ix Foreword by Terry Eagleton x Introduction to the Third Edition xiv i September 1914 xiv ii September 2001 xvi iii September 1939 xix iv Art and Humanism xxii v Humanism and Materialism xxv vi Returns xxvi vii Knowledge and Desire xxx Notes xxxv Bibliography xxxvii Introduction to the Second Edition xli PART I: RADICAL DRAMA: ITS CONTEXTS AND EMERGENCE 1 Contexts 3(26) i Literary Criticism: Order versus History 5(4) ii Ideology, Religion and Renaissance Scepticism 9(8) iii Ideology and the Decentring of Man 17(2) iv Secularism versus Nihilism 19(3) v Censorship 22(3) vi Inversion and Misrule 25(4) 2 Emergence: Marston's Antonio Plays (c. 1599-1601) and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c. 1601-2) 29(24) i Discontinuous Identity (1) 30(6) ii Providence and Natural Law (1) 36(4) iii Discontinuous Identity (2) 40(2) iv Providence and Natural Law (2) 42(2) v Ideology and the Absolute 44(3) vi Social Contradiction and Discontinuous Identity 47(2) vii Renaissance Man versus Decentred Malcontent 49 PART II: STRUCTURE, MIMESIS, PROVIDENCE 3 Structure: From Resolution to Dislocation 53(17) i Bradley 53(3) ii Archer and Eliot 56(3) iii Coherence and Discontinuity 59(4) iv Brecht: A Different Reality 63(7) 4 Renaissance Literary Theory: Two Concepts of Mimesis 70(13) i Poetry versus History 71(2) ii The Fictive and the Real 73(10) 5 The Disintegration of Providentialist Belief 83(26) i Atheism and Religious Scepticism 83(4) ii Providentialism and History 87(3) iii Organic Providence 90(2) iv From Mutability to Cosmic Decay 92(7) v Goodman and Elemental Chaos 99(4) vi Providence and Protestantism 103(4) vii Providence, Decay and the Drama 107(2) 6 Dr Faustus (c. 1589-92): Subversion Through Transgression 109(11) i Limit and Transgression 110(6) ii Power and the Unitary Soul 116(4) 7 Mustapha (c. 1594-6): Ruined Aesthetic, Ruined Theology 120(14) i Tragedy, Theology and Cosmic Decay 120(3) ii Mustapha: Tragedy as Dislocation 123(11) 8 Sejanus (1603): History and Realpolitik 134(5) i History, Fate, Providence 134(5) 9 The Revenger's Tragedy (c. 1606): Providence, Parody and Black Camp 139(14) i Providence and Parody 139(4) ii Desire and Death 143(10) PART III: MAN DECENTRED 10 Subjectivity and Social Process 153(29) i Tragedy, Humanism and the Transcendent Subject 156(2) ii The Jacobean Displacement of the Subject 158(3) iii The Essentialist Tradition: Christianity, Stoicism and Renaissance Humanism 161(2) iv Internal Tensions 163(6) v Anti-Essentialism in Political Theory and Renaissance Scepticism 169(5) vi Renaissance Individualism? 174(8) 11 Bussy DÁmhois (c. 1604): A Hero at Court 182(7) i Shadows and Substance 182(3) ii Court Power and Native Noblesse 185(4) 12 King Lear (c. 1605-6) and Essentialist Humanism 189(15) i Redemption and Endurance: Two Sides of Essentialist Humanism 191(4) ii KingLear: A Materialist Reading 195(7) iii The Refusal of Closure 202(2) 13 Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1607): Virtus under Erasure 204(14) i Virtus and History 206(1) ii Virtus and Realpolitik (1) 207(6) iii Honour and Policy 213(2) iv Sexuality and Power 215(3) 14 Coriolanus (c. 1608): The Chariot Wheel and its Dust 218(13) i Virtus and Realpolitik (2) 218(4) ii Essentialism and Class War 222(9) 15 The White Devil (1612): Transgression Without Virtue 231(18) i Religion and State Power 231(1) ii The Virtuous and the Vicious 232(3) iii Sexual and Social Exploitation 235(4) iv The Assertive Woman 239(3) v The Dispossessed Intellectual 242(2) vi Living Contradictions 244(5) PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY: IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM 16 Beyond Essentialist Humanism 249(23) i Origins of the Transcendent Subject 250(3) ii Essence and Universal: Enlightenment Transitions 253(3) iii Discrimination and Subjectivity 256(2) iv Formative Literary Influences: Pope to Eliot 258(4) v Existentialism 262(2) vi Lawrence, Leavis and Individualism 264(5) vii The Decentred Subject 269(3) Notes 272(18) Bibliography of Work Cited 290(17) Index of Names and Texts 307(4) Index of Subjects 311