Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe

1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy
2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London
3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy

Conclusion: "Making Good the Conclusion": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving

Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews

"English Renaissance scholars will find Andrew Griffin’s book an agreeable re-visioning of some familiar plays, while it brings attention to some neglected plays. It’s also an intriguing approach to late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." - Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg (Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme) "Andrew Griffin’s deeply learned and painstakingly written book argues that early modern drama participates in or functions as a form of early modern historiography, one in which the competing forms of memorializing human lives and deaths common to this transitional period of history writing ‘abrupt’ the dramatic narration." - Yvonne Bruce (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching)