Metropolitan Tragedy – Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England

Metropolitan TragedyGenre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England\nAuthor(s): Marissa Greenberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442648807, 978-1442648807\nSynopsis\nBreaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in Londons urban fabric and the citys judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny.\n\n Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of Englands capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the met.