Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe 1
5. 1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy 35
6. 2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London 63
7. 3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 91
8. 4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist’s Tragedy 117
9. Conclusion: “Making Good the Conclusion”: Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving 147
10. Notes 159
11. Works Cited 173
12. Index 189