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Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern Tragedy written by Raymond Williams and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George R. Esenwein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134629680
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by George R. Esenwein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of primary sources on the Spanish Civil War uses military and political documents, media accounts, and contemporary propaganda to create a representative and illuminating survey of this enormously complicated event more than sixty-five years after it ended. Structured chronologically from a full introduction which delineates the field, this book ranges from the origins of the uprising against Franco through to its turbulent aftermath. It clearly outlines key points in the conflict and highlights the little-known roles of race and gender in determining the war’s outcome. The book also unearths many rare sources for the first time and reveals the variety of perspectives held by those immediately involved in the war. This is an ideal resource for all students of history and military history.
Author : Edwin Wong
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525537563
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy written by Edwin Wong and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.
Author : Annamaria Cascetta
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783081619
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Modern European Tragedy written by Annamaria Cascetta and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
Author : Ketu Katrak
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313240744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy written by Ketu Katrak and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic drama of Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, is the focus of this in-depth study. Ketu H. Katrak explores Soyinka's concept of the tragic experience as it relates to Yoruba culture and analyzes the unique features of his theory of tragedy which blends Yoruba traditional drama with Western tragic forms. Opening with a biographical overview of Soyinka's life and career, Katrak addresses the major issues presented by Soyinka in his essay on tragedy, The Fourth Stage. These include the origin of tragic feeling, the components of the tragic experience, and the concretization of these abstract notions in the Yoruba god Ogun. The author demonstrates that it is through these themes and the elements of ritual and myth that Soyinka imparts communal values to his work, ultimately achieving a metaphysical level of expression. Katrak also discusses the element of the death of the protagonist in a number of Soyinka's plays and how it is beneficial for the community. The history of a community, a nation, and mankind, as it appears in other Soyinka plays, is also discussed. Throughout the work, the study of Soyinka's drama is balanced with an analysis of dramatic structure and stagecraft. Included are interviews and discussions with many of Nigeria's academicians, as well as with Soyinka himself.
Author : Sean Carney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613971
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy written by Sean Carney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work. Carney's attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.
Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191300
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Modern Tragedy written by Raymond Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern Tragedy, Williams bridges the gap between literary and socio-economic study, tracing the notion of tragedy from its philosophical and dramatic origins with Aristotle. In addition, Williams discusses tragedy in Chaucher, Nietzche, Brecht, Sartre and other leading figures in the history of thought, as well as elements of tragic experience – both political and personal - in socialist revolutions of the 20th century.
Author : George Charles Roche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A World Without Heroes written by George Charles Roche and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087002X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Achilles' Choice written by David Lenson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice? David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition—among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Faulkner—and suggests that the tradition of tragedy does continue in genres other than drama, that is, in the novel and even in lyric poetry. The notion of tragedy's migration from one genre to others indicates, however, rather sweeping modifications in the theory of tragedy. Achilles' Choice proposes a structural model for tragic criticism that synthesizes the almost scientific theories predominant since World War II with the irrationalist theories they replaced. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521519373
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy written by Emma Josephine Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830463
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman written by Robert Willoughby Corrigan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.
Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691020051
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Tragedy and Philosophy written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.
Author : John Von Szeliski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807898031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Tragedy and Fear written by John Von Szeliski and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy and Fear: Why Modern Tragic Drama Fails
Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286944
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Tragic Modernities written by Miriam Leonard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
Author : David Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474276946
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama written by David Palmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
Author : Phyllis Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849504969
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Modern Tragedy written by Phyllis Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga Kekis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351253964
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Hypertheatre written by Olga Kekis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre which addresses present-day issues. The book’s premise is that by breaking drama into constituent parts, revising, reinterpreting and rewriting to create a new, culturally and politically relevant construct, the process of adaptation creates a 'hyperplay', newly repurposed for the contemporary world. This process is explored through a diverse collection of postmodern adaptations of Antigone, Medea, and The Trojan Women, analysing their adaptive strategies and the evidence of how these remakings reflect the cultures of which they are a part. Central to this study is the idea that each of these adaptations becomes an entirely new play, redefining its central female figures and invoking reconfigurations of femininity which emphasise individual women’s strengths and female solidarity. Written for scholars of Theatre, Adaptation, Performance Studies, and Literature, Hypertheatre places the Greek classics firmly within a contemporary feminist discourse.
