Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture
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Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture
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Author : John Orr
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture written by John Orr and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Social Science categories.
This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, it is argued, illuminate the forms of pleasure, fear, performance and corruption which dominate our daily lives. Tragicomedy is seen as unique becuae of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.
The Name And Nature Of Tragicomedy
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Author : Verna A. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Name And Nature Of Tragicomedy written by Verna A. Foster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama that is neither comic nor tragic). Foster posits that, in the sense of the dramaturgical and emotional fusion of tragic and comic elements to create a distinguishable new genre, tragicomedy has emerged only twice in the history of drama. She argues that tragicomedy first emerged and was controversial in the Renaissance; and that it has in modern times replaced tragedy itself as the most serious and moving of all dramatic genres. In the first section of the book, the author analyzes the name 'tragicomedy' and the genre's problems of identity; then goes on to explore early modern tragicomedies by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger. A transitional chapter addresses cognate genres. The final section of the book focuses on modern tragicomedies by Ibsen, Chekhov, Synge, O'Casey, Williams, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter. By exploring dramaturgical similarities between early modern and modern tragicomedies, Foster demonstrates the persistence of tragicomedy's generic markers and provides a more precise conceptual framework for the genre than has so far been available.
Modern Tragicomedy And The British Tradition
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Author : Richard Dutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Modern Tragicomedy And The British Tradition written by Richard Dutton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Politics Of Tragicomedy
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Author : Gordon McMullan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-30
The Politics Of Tragicomedy written by Gordon McMullan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the genre. Individual essays offer important contributions to continuing debates over the role of the drama in the years preceding the Civil War, the colonial contexts of The Tempest, the political character of Jonson’s late plays, and the agency of women as public and theatre actors. The introduction presents a strong challenge to previous definitions of tragicomedy in the English context, and the collection as a whole is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy. This collection will prove essential reading for all with an interest in the politics of Renaissance drama; for specialists in the work of Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson; for those interested in genre and dramatic forms; and for historians of early Stuart England.
Tragicomedy
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Author : Brean Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Tragicomedy written by Brean Hammond and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form, the influence of Italian and Spanish theorist-playwrights and the importance of translations of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid. At the turn of the 17th century, English dramatists such as John Marston, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare began experimenting with plays that mixed elements of tragedy and comedy, producing a blended mode that they themselves called 'tragicomedy'. This book begins by examining the sources of their inspiration and the theatrical achievement that they hoped to gain by confronting an audience with plays that defied the plot and character expectations of 'pure' comedy and tragedy. It goes on to show how, reacting to French models, John Dryden, Shakespeare 'improvers' and other English playwrights developed the form while sowing the seeds of its own vulnerability to parody and obsolescence in the eighteenth century. Discussing nineteenth-century melodrama as in some respects a resurrection of tragicomedy, the final chapter concentrates on plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, and Beckett as examples of the form being revived to create theatrical modes that more adequately represent the perceived complexity of experience.
Interpreting Events
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Author : Paul Hernadi
language : en
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1985
Interpreting Events written by Paul Hernadi and has been published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since World War I, Paul Hernadi says, a new kind of historical drama has emerged--one in which history is conspicuously ficitonalized. In this book, Hernadi looks closely at developments in the genre of historical drama since 1920, showing how some of the most successful plays of the twentieth century have underscored the parallels between storytelling and the telling of history.
Tragicomedy
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Author : David L. Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1984-01-01
Tragicomedy written by David L. Hirst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Tragicomedy categories.
Modern Tragicomedy
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Author : Karl Siegfried Guthke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Modern Tragicomedy written by Karl Siegfried Guthke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Tragicomedy categories.
The Shakespearean Comic And Tragicomic
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Author : Richard Hillman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Shakespearean Comic And Tragicomic written by Richard Hillman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with English drama categories.
Richard Hillman's latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions.
Pinter And Modern Tragicomedy
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Author : Frank S. Kastor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Pinter And Modern Tragicomedy written by Frank S. Kastor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Tragicomedy categories.