John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes

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John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes is written by Paula de Pando and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004379347 (ISBN 10) and 9789004379343 (ISBN 13).

In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes, Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.