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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
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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.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction: Defining the Elephant, Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State University, USA)
1. Forms and Media, Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA)
3. Communities of Production and Consumption, András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA)
4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Richard Wilson (Kingston University, UK and the University of Oxford, UK)
5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Paul Innes (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
6. Politics of City and Nation, Ivan Lupic (Stanford University, USA)
7. Society and Family, Coppélia Kahn (Brown University, USA)
8. Gender and Sexuality, Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | May 20 2021 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781350155008 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 16 bw illus |
Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

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