Out of the Ossuary
Michael Neill: Shakespeare and Emotion, 14 July 2016
The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
by Steven Mullaney.
Chicago, 231 pp., £24.50, July 2015,978 0 226 11709 6 Show More
by Steven Mullaney.
Chicago, 231 pp., £24.50, July 2015,
“... of one of the most elaborately layered examples of dramatic irony in the Elizabethan canon, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, which not only contains two inset theatrical performances, but whose whole action is framed by the presence of an onstage audience. Mullaney is, I think, the first to remark on the seeming wastefulness of this metadramatic ... ”