Misc. on C of L49 Jacobean Tragedy

[Mark Kohut]

I am going to synopsize an article I am reading on Jacobean Tragedies
from an expert and from 1964. It is the introduction to the Penguin edition of three plays,
The Revenger's Tragedy, by Tourneur---whose reputation has only climbed since the sixties---
 the White Devil and The Changeling.

(I think it entirely possible but a- kutely speculative that TRPjr. might have read these tragedies in this edition.)

BUT, one fascinating tidbit....The cultural 'architecture' of Jacobean Tragedy combined
"Machiavellian cynicism... and the revival of the medieval notion that the world was running down!
.....and on the verge of dissolution."