| Publication |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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| Description |
viii, 243pGreen Spine
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| Series |
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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| Summary/Abstract |
Tragedy is the art form created to confront the most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays, playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means to seek explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we continually encounter in the media, to denote an event which is simply devastating in its emotional power. This introduction explores the relationship between tragic experience and tragic representation. After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekhov, American tragedy and post-colonial drama - it also looks at the contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject, before ranging across other art forms and areas of debate.
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| Contents |
Approaching the subject
Tragic drama
Tragic theory
Non-dramatic tragedy
Coda : tragic sites
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| Standard Number |
9780521671491 Pb.
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