Tragedy: A Short Introduction

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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world.

  • Argues that today’s most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens
  • Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy
  • Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged
  • Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending
  • Explores the past and future of the tragic form

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Tragic Form and Language
32
Tragic Plots
52
Tragic Heroes
84
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction
Rebecca Bushnell
Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2009
Tragedy: A Short Introduction
Rebecca Bushnell
Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2007

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Om författaren (2007)

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.

Bibliografisk information

TitelTragedy: A Short Introduction
Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
FörfattareRebecca Bushnell
Utgåvaillustrerad
UtgivareWiley, 2007
Original frånUniversity of Michigan
Digitaliserad19 maj 2008
ISBN1405130210, 9781405130219
Längd152 sidor
  
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