The Chorus in Early Modern English Tragedy
The One and the Many
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Description
Silvia Bigliazzi explores the dynamics between the individual and the collective in 16th century English tragedies in this vibrant study of the chorus in early modern tragedy. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, Bigliazzi examines the performative, political and cultural implications of chorality in early modern English tragedy over five decades.
From the first English language translations of Seneca's play, Troas, Horace's Ars Poetica, and the reinvention of the Italo-Euripidean Jocasta to the use of prologue in plays like Romeo and Juliet and Pericles, Bigliazzi traces the appearance and transformation of the ancient Graeco-Roman chorus in early modern English theatre between the late 1590s to the mid-1590s. Through a reinterpretation of the ancient threnos/kommos and female lament to a regendering of collective or choric mourning in tragedies such as David and Bethsabe, Tamburlaine, Richard III and Romeo and Juliet. A nuanced understanding of tragedy and the politics of gendered choral performance emerges through a complex reworking of ancient models, where the essence of tragic drama was rooted in the interplay between the chorus and individual characters. From the early Inns of Court drama to Shakespeare, this study reveals a fresh understanding of early modern tragedy as part of a thrilling encounter between the ancient and the new.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Reading the Chorus
Chapter 2: Versifying the Chorus: From Seneca to Jasper Heywood
Chapter 3: Focalising the Chorus
Chapter 4: Domesticating the Chorus: from Euripides to Gray's Inn
Chapter 5: Mourning Becomes the Chorus
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350591394 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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