A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age

by Naomi Conn Liebler (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350155008
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2021
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Naomi Conn Liebler is a Professor of English and a University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.
Naomi Conn Liebler is Professor of English at Montclair State University, USA. She is the author of Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Politics of Reading (2007), The Female Tragic Hero in Renaissance English Drama (2002) and Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre (1995). She also co-edited Tragedy: A Critical Reader, with John Drakakis (1998).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface

Introduction: Defining the Elephant, Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State University, USA)
1. Forms and Media, Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA)
3. Communities of Production and Consumption, András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA)
4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Richard Wilson (Kingston University, UK and the University of Oxford, UK)
5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Paul Innes (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
6. Politics of City and Nation, Ivan Lupic (Stanford University, USA)
7. Society and Family, Coppélia Kahn (Brown University, USA)
8. Gender and Sexuality, Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Notes
Bibliography
Index