Mediating the Sensational in The Spanish Tragedy Público
Reilly, James (2012)
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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