Tragedy: A Short Introduction by Bushnell, Rebecca

Tragedy: A Short Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405130202)

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Format: Hardcover
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction by Bushnell, Rebecca

Tragedy: A Short Introduction

$108.95
Tragedy: A Short Introduction by Bushnell, Rebecca

Tragedy: A Short Introduction

$108.95
Format: Hardcover
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world.

  • Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens
  • Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy
  • Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged
  • Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending
  • Explores the past and future of the tragic form


Author: Rebecca Bushnell
ISBN-10: 1405130202
ISBN-13: 9781405130202
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2007
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.43w x 0.71d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 242
By Rebecca Bushnell
By Rebecca Bushnell
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Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She edited A Companion to Tragedy and authored Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens, A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice, Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, and Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays.

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