Tragedy: A Short IntroductionISBN: 978-1-4051-3020-2
Hardcover
156 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world.
- Argues that today’s most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens
- Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy
- Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged
- Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending
- Explores the past and future of the tragic form
