Tragedy : A Short Introduction PDF
by Rebecca Bushnell
Description
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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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:09/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780470765852
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:09/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780470765852