Jacobean tragedy
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Recently I’ve become interested in the notion of Jacobean tragedy as a precursor of the gothic. Cyril Tourneur’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, first published in 1607, certainly has affinities with the gothic. There’s the idea of a parent’s guilt visited upon the children, there’s a feeling of characters caught in a web of violence from which they cannot escape, and there’s a truly astonishing amount of murder and mayhem. And the murder committed by poisoning the lips of a skull - you don’t get much more gothic than that. It’s all very overheated and excitable, and highly entertaining.
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dfordoom)Recently I’ve become interested in the notion of Jacobean tragedy as a precursor of the gothic. Cyril Tourneur’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, first published in 1607, certainly has affinities with the gothic. There’s the idea of a parent’s guilt visited upon the children, there’s a feeling of characters caught in a web of violence from which they cannot escape, and there’s a truly astonishing amount of murder and mayhem. And the murder committed by poisoning the lips of a skull - you don’t get much more gothic than that. It’s all very overheated and excitable, and highly entertaining.
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