A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages

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.>

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• Authors: Theresa Coletti, Jody Enders, John T Sebastian
• Assisted by: Theresa Coletti (Editor), Jody Enders (Editor), Enders Jody (Editor), John T. Sebastian (Editor), Sebastian John T. (Editor), Carol Symes (Editor), Symes Carol (Editor), Rebecca Bushnell (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9781350416765
• ISBN: 978-1-350-41676-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Cultural Histories Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Europe, European History, DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Plays, Playscripts, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Tragic plays