The individual and self-destruction in Renaissance drama: The examples of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Tourneur, and Ford
Renaissance drama, viewed against the new, fame-obsessed restlessness of Petrarch, Cardan, and Montaigne, engenders an imperial selfhood that fashions itself with narcissistic aggression and simultaneously undermines itself by becoming an agent in its own destruction. Selfhood issues in a restless s...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1993
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9316615 |