Author: Matthew S. BuckleyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Tragedy Walks the Streets
Author: Matthew S. BuckleyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
Author: Michael GamerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350155063
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. 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. 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.
The Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770483888
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of “false scholarship.” This edition includes the text of the play itself and the text of the extraordinary notes (by Fielding’s pseudonym “H. Scriblerus Secundus”), appearing in facing page layout; extensive explanatory notes for the modern reader appear at the bottom of the page. Also included are a substantial introduction and a wide range of background materials that set the work in the context of its time. These contextual materials include contemporary reviews, excerpts from the plays that Fielding’s parody most frequently targeted, and selections from works that provided inspiration for The Tragedy of Tragedies—from contemporary versions of the “Tom Thumb” folktale to satirical writing by authors such as Alexander Pope, John Gay, and George Villiers.
The tragedy of tragedies, Tom Thumb ... 1731
Author: Henry FieldingThe Tragedy of Tragedies; Or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq;: The coffee-house politician. The tragedy of tragedies. The letter-writers. The grub-street opera. The modern husband
Author: Henry FieldingTheatre Histories
Author: Phillip B. ZarrilliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415462231
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.
Tom Thumb and the Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Modernism's Mythic Pose
Author: Carrie J. PrestonPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199766266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting theorist Francois Delsarte and largely organized by women, Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance star, and H.D. as poet and film actor.Preston's interdisciplinary engagement with performance, poetics, modern dance, and silent film demonstrates that studies of modernism often overemphasize breaks with the past. Modernism also posed myth in an ambivalent relationship to modernity, a halt in the march of progress that could function as escapism, skeptical critique, or a figure for the death of gods and civilizations.