– Reference DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Cultural Histories A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity Edited by Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Covering the period from 500 BCE to 1000 AD, this volume examines tragedy in antiquity, from its misty origins in Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 232 pages • 36 bw illus HB 9781474287890 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350154889 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350154872 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age Edited by Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA
Covering the period between 1400 and 1650, this volume includes eight lively, original essays which trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the Early Modern period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 224 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781474287968 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155008 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155015 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
Edited by Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Covering the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume traces the metamorphoses of tragedy in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly defined by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its narrative focuses on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries.
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages Edited by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland, USA, John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University, USA & Carol Symes, University of Illinois, USA
Spanning the period from 1000 to 1400, the 8 essays in this volume offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 240 pages • 19 bw illus HB 9781474287906 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350154940 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350154957 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University, USA
Covering the period between 1650 and 1800, this volume 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. This volume examines the way in which tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period of enormous political, social and economic changes, 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. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 248 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781474288057 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155084 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155091 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age
Edited by Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK Covering the period from 1920 to the present, this volume considers the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges.
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.
While theater remains the primary focus, the essays also cover tragic representation in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. It also reflects increasing globalization, including intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 216 pages • 33 bw illus HB 9781474288071 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155060 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155077 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 232 pages • 39 bw illus HB 9781474288095 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155114 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155107 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
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