Bushnell Tragedy

A Short Introduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-76585-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, E-Book

Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre forreaders who are eager to embrace it, but who often find thetraditional masterpieces too distant from their own language andworld.

* * Argues that today's most popular television shows andfilms thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, andcatastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth centuryAthens

* Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compellingqualities of tragedy

* Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities ofthe classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in definingtraged

* Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and amere unhappy ending

* Explores the past and future of the tragic form

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bushnell, Rebecca

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Chapter 1. Tragic Theaters.
Chapter 2. Tragic Form and Language.
Chapter 3. Tragic Plots.
Chapter 4. Tragic Heroes.
Chapter 5. Tragic History and Tragic Future.
Plays Cited.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She edited A Companion to Tragedy and authored Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens, A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice, Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, and Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays.