A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the 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.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: Rebecca Bushnell, Naomi Conn Liebler
• Assisted by: Naomi Conn Liebler (Editor), Rebecca Bushnell (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9781350416789
• ISBN: 978-1-350-41678-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 12 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, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Plays, Playscripts, C 1600 To C 1700, European history: Renaissance, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Tragic plays