Untying and deconstructing the text in post-Shakespearean renaissance tragedies : theoretical underpinnings

Abstract EN

There is a case to be made that the Jacobean dramatists namely, Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster and John Ford were changing the scope of tragedy as generally perceived away from both Senecan and Aristotelian models.

In this, they included elements of self-parody, where the capacity of the self to fashion itself is satirized.

Out of this generic polyphony, something distinctive emerged.