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Author : Isabella M. Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Ages written by Isabella M. Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Fantasia
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885093
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Tragedy in the Age of Oprah written by Louis Fantasia and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama? In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today’s audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides’ Medea, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Jean Racine’s Phèdre, Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, and Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. Fantasia discusses in detail each of these plays, framing them in a contemporary context that explores the suffering, responsibility, and identity that tragedy advocates. Each play is presented as an engaging, powerful encounter for the reader, recreating as closely as possible the impact of a great performance. A unique look at the role classical theatre can and should play in contemporary society, these essays reveal the lessons great plays have to teach us about ourselves. Directed toward theatre professionals and students, Tragedy in the Age of Oprah will also resonate with anyone interested in theatre, literature, and cultural studies.
Author : Thomas Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Tragedies of the Last Age written by Thomas Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karuna Shanker Misra
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172110369
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Hero Through Ages written by Karuna Shanker Misra and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Hero through Ages is an illuminating work on the greatest Greek and English tragedies and their heroes. The first chapter deals with the Greek tragedies and their heroes. The next three chapters study the outstanding pre-Shakespearean, Shakespearean and post-Shakespearean tragedies and their heroes. The Miltonic and the Byronic heroes have been studied in fifth and sixth chapters, respectively. The closing chapter summarizes the whole work and many undiscovered facts have been brought to light. It is genuine contribution to the whole theory of Greek and English tragic drama. It embodies the most famous speeches and best scenes from the greatest Greek and English Tragedies: their short summaries and the lifelike portraits of their heroes. It is a running commentary on the Greek and English tragic drama, spreading over a span of 2500 years with all its charm and grandeur. It is a colossal work with the finish of an exquisite piece of jewellery.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350154954
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages written by Jody Enders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155098
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment written by Mitchell Greenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Thomas Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Tragedies of the Last Age written by Thomas Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1692 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd and Examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients, and by the Common Sense of All Ages written by Thomas Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1678 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Bytes 4 the Heart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Desire of Ages written by Ellen G. White and published by Bytes 4 the Heart. This book was released on 1898 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. T. Travis
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371075606
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (756 download)
Download or read book TRAGEDY OF THE AGES written by William D. T. Travis and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155012
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age written by Naomi Conn Liebler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Erin Dionne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101155752
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! - it's not that easy. As if they weren't strange enough, her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then, when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she- like her family - is anything but ordinary.
Author : Thomas Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd and Examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients, and by the Common Sense of All Ages, in a Letter to Fleetwood Shepheard ... written by Thomas Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1678 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nik Havert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667306
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema written by Nik Havert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre. Audiences thrilled at the spectacle of these films, many of which were considered glamorous for their time. Derided by critics, they became box office hits and cult classics, inspiring filmmakers around the globe. Some of them launched the careers of producers, directors and actors who would go on to create some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. With more than 40 interviews with actors, actresses, producers, stuntmen, special effects artists and others, this book covers the Golden Age of sinking ships, burning buildings, massive earthquakes, viral pandemics and outbreaks of animal madness.
Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155063
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire written by Michael Gamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474288073
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire written by Michael Gamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 5 covers the period 1800-1920.
Author : Louis Fantasia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810885085
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Tragedy in the Age of Oprah written by Louis Fantasia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama? In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today's audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides' Medea, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jean Racine's Ph dre, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Fantasia discusses in detail each of these plays, framing them in a contemporary context that explores the suffering, responsibility, and identity that tragedy advocates. Each play is presented as an engaging, powerful encounter for the reader, recreating as closely as possible the impact of a great performance. A unique look at the role classical theatre can and should play in contemporary society, these essays reveal the lessons great plays have to teach us about ourselves. Directed toward theatre professionals and students, Tragedy in the Age of Oprah will also resonate with anyone interested in theatre, literature, and cultural studies.
