A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age



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Jennifer Wallace | 2021 | ISBN: 147428809X | English | 232 pages | ePUB | 7 MB

Series: The Cultural Histories, 6

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.