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A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment

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Author : Mitchell Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-18

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Mitchell Greenberg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with History categories.

How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 4 covers the period 1650-1800.

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment

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Author : Mitchell Greenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Mitchell Greenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Tragedy categories.

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire

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Author : Michael Gamer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire written by Michael Gamer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Performing Arts categories.

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. 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.

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire

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Author : Michael Gamer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2021-11-18

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire written by Michael Gamer and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Performing Arts categories.

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment

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Author : Mitchell Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2021-11-18

A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Mitchell Greenberg and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Performing Arts categories.

The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. 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.

A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Age Of Enlightenment

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Author : Mechele Leon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08

A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Mechele Leon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with History categories.

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.