In English Renaissance Tragedy, Thomas McAlindon provides,for the first time, a comprehensive contextual framework for the studyof the major non-Shakespearean tragedians. Demonstrating thatpre-modern cosmology was fundamentally ambiguous, he argues that itbecame a model for tragic experience. The book provides a broad perspective together with detailed studiesof the major plays, and it gives special emphasis to the seminalachievements of Kyd and Marlowe...