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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

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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 02/11/2007
    ISBN13: 9781405130202, 978-1405130202
    ISBN10: 1405130202

    Number of Pages: 156

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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

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