Tragedy as philosophy in the Reformation world Leo, Russ creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2019 2019 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World' examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of tragedy, irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into causality, probability, necessity, and the terms of human affect and action. With these resources at hand, poets and critics produced aseries of daring and influential theses on tragedy between the 1550s and the 1630s, all directly related to pressing Reformation debates concerning providence, predestination, faith, and devotional practice. Under the influence of Aristotle's Poetics, they presented tragedy as an exacting forensic tool, enabling attentive readers to apprehend totality. And while some poets employed tragedy to render sacred history palpable with new energy and urgency, others marshalled a precise philosophicalnotion of tragedy directly against spectacle and stage-playing, endorsing anti-theatrical theses on tragedy inflected by the antique Poetics. In other words, this work illustrates the degree to which some of the influential poets and critics in the period, emphasized philosophical precision at the0expense of-even to the exclusion of-dramatic presentation. Reformation tragedy and revelation: David Pareus' tragic typology -- Lodovico Castelvetro's heterodox poetics: tragic accommodation -- John Rainolds, Hamlet, and the anti-theatrical Aristotle -- Necessity, between tragedy and predestination: Daniel Heinsius and De Tragoediae Constitutione (1611) -- Greek tragedy and Hebrew antiquity in John Milton's 1671 poems. Russ Leo. Includes bibliographical references and index. Tragic, The Tragic, The, in literature Reformation Literature, Modern 15th and 16th centuries History and criticism Literature, Modern 17th century History and criticism Tragique Tragique dans la littérature Réforme (Christianisme) Littérature 15e et 16e siècles Histoire et critique Littérature 17e siècle Histoire et critique Reformation PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics Literature, Modern Reformation Tragic, The Tragic, The, in literature 1400-1699 fast BH301.T7 L45 2019 111.85 Tragedy as philosophy in the Reformation world Leo, Russ. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 First edition. (DLC) 2018949486 (OCoLC)1039666502 9780191874048 0191874043 9780192571670 0192571672 9780198834212 0198834217 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/11231 YDX 181210 20260319180325.8 in00005716722 eng