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2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 915-917
Author(s):  
Jamie Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Raising Of Lazarus

scholarly journals “Take (Meta)physic, pomp”: King Lear and (Dis)oriented Ontology

ROMARD ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
M. Burdick Smith
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Insight Into

This essay uses Object-Oriented Ontology, a posthumanist theoretical model, to explore how King Lear’s use of and relation to objects can provide insight into his characterization. This essay provides a model for scrutinizing the role of objects—whether animate or inanimate—in performances of early modern drama; furthermore, it argues that King Lear’s use of objects reveals a consistent refusal to understand others, which upsets a redemptive arc in the play. To that end, the article proposes an ethical model—demonstrated by Kent—that responds to the play’s otherwise desolate worldview.

scholarly journals Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Lucy Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Biblical Drama ◽  
The Impact

This essay takes up the question of what impact Greek tragedy had on original plays written in Latin in the sixteenth century. In exploring George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes sive calumnia (printed 1577) and its reworking of scenes and images from Sophocles' Antigone, we see how neo-Latin drama provided a valuable channel for the sharing and shaping of early modern ideas about Greek tragedy. The impact of the Baptistes on English drama is then examined, with particular reference to Thomas Watson's celebrated Latin translation of Antigone (1581). The strange affinities between Watson's and Buchanan's plays reveal the potential for Greek tragedy to shape early modern drama, but also for early modern drama to shape how Greek tragedy itself was read and received in early modern England.

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