Mediating the Sensational in The Spanish Tragedy Public

Abstract

This is a study of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and related scholarship, focusing closely on violence, subjectivity, and what critics have called its sensationalism. While I do not seek to refute the claims of sensationalism, I do consider what it means for a work of Elizabethan drama to be described as such, as well as the types of interpretive work involved in reading a sensational scene, line, stage direction, or even an entire play. Reading into the ways in which madness, eloquence, and voyeurism function in the play, I examine how Kyd represents subjectivity and the sensual within a narrative of predetermined violence that undermines such subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Discerning Madness and Mimesis

II. Inarticulate Patriarchs

III. Seeing Sensationally

IV. Pleasurable Rites

V. Mediating the Sensational

Conclusion

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School	Laney Graduate School
Department	English
Degree	MA
Submission	Master's Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, English
Mot-clé	violence Sensationalism Kyd Voyeurism
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Cahill, Patricia, Emory University
Committee Members	Rusche, Harry, Emory University

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