Chapman, George - Gisèle Venet (essay date 1995)
Gisèle Venet (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Venet, Gisèle. “Baroque Space and Time in Chapman's Tragedy: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron.” In French Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: “What Would France with Us?,” edited by Jean-Marie Maguin and Michèle Willems, pp. 304-13. London: Associated University Presses, 1995.
[In the essay below, Venet considers Byron “the story of the great contradictions of the baroque era,” especially the opposition between medieval feudal values and Renaissance political values.]
The Conspiracie and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, Marshall of France. Acted in two playes at the Black-Friers is a bipartite play, as the title of the immediately published 1608 text indicates. Chapman's play is the tragedy of a double world as well as that of a divided universe.
First, it is a tragedy of the present, staging real events of contemporary history—from 1599 to...
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