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Informationen zum Autor Jody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French and Theater at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (1992), The Medieval Theater of Cruelty (1999), Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (2002), and Murder by Accident (2010), as well as two books of performance-friendly literary translations: The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries (2011) and Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries (2017). Theresa Coletti is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory (1988) and Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (2004), and editor of The Digby Mary Magdalene (2018). John T. Sebastian is Vice President for Mission and Ministry and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is, with Christina M. Fitzgerald, general editor of the Broadview Anthology of Medieval Literature and its spinoff volumes, including an edition of English morality plays. He is also the editor of the TEAMS edition of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament . He has also published chapters on medieval drama, the devotional poetry of John Lydgate, and medievalism in video games. Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, USA. She is the author of A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras (2007), the co-editor, with Caroline C. Goodson and Anne E. Lester, of Cities, Texts, and Social Networks: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space, 400–1500 (2010); co-author of a bestselling college textbook, Western Civilizations ; and founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe , the first academic journal to promote a global approach to medieval studies. Rebecca Bushnell is School of Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors Emerita Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her books include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1988); Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990); A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996); Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003); A Companion to Tragedy ( 2005); and Tragedy: A Short Introduction (2007). She is Immediate Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America, Klappentext For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays 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. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. 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. Zusammenfassung For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative ...
