Wallace, Jennifer
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 323 págs. 16.9 x 24.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 16-11-2023
EAN: 9781350416819
ISBN: 978-1-350-41681-9
Precio (sin IVA): 34,75 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 36,14 €
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.