TY - BOOK AU - Belsey,Catherine TI - The subject of tragedy: identity and difference in Renaissance drama SN - 0416327001 AV - PR658.S42 B45 1985 U1 - 822.009355 19 PY - 1985/// CY - London, New York PB - Methuen KW - English drama KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - Sex role in literature KW - 17th century KW - English drama (Tragedy) KW - Difference (Psychology) in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Drama KW - Psychological aspects KW - Renaissance KW - England N1 - First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related; Bibliography: p. 227-244 ER -