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Modern Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Modern Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Forms of Drama
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What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How
does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To
what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different
locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency
of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern
Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th
century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's
Riders to the Sea (1904), which shows how environmental awareness
might be expressed through tragic drama. Moran also looks at
Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Senora
Carrar's Rifles, and situates Brecht's script in the light of the
theatre practitioner's broader ideas about tragedy. Brecht's tragic
thinking - informed by Hegel and Marx - is contrasted with the
Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to
examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by
applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders
to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. Looking at Derek Walcott's The
Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961), Modern
Tragedy explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with
regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how
aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and
concerns of authors and audiences of colour.
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