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Article Excerpt
Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. 3rd Edition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. cii + 312 pp.
Since its original publication in 1984, Jonathan Dollimore's Radical Tragedy has sustained its significance as a seminal critical text in both cultural materialism and Renaissance drama. It is a book that challenges the post-Enlightenment "humanist" criticism of Renaissance texts, arguing that humanist essentialism de-historicizes those texts by viewing tragedy, in particular, as a genre that either transcends the structures of power and the historical moment or as a device of ideological affirmation. Dollimore argues instead that essentialism is itself an historical construct, and early modern tragedy in fact neither validates nor transcends the dominant ideologies of early modern England but rather "interrogates ideology from within, seizing on and exposing its contradictions and inconsistencies and offering alternative ways of understanding social and...
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