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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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In this book leading scholars come together to provide a
comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and
other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often
considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical
genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical
catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate
change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and
consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of
tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the
tragic tradition-updated in performance-still spoke to 20th- and
21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus of
investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the essays also
cover tragic representation-often re-mediated, fragmented and
provocatively questioned-in film, art and installation,
photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary
reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7 news cycles
travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are reported across
the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries, this volume
includes intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and
postcolonial tragic representations. 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.
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