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Modern Tragedy - Forms of Drama
James Moran
What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century?
Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. Beginning with John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), which it argues demonstrates how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama, Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Senora Carrar's Rifles. Examining Brecht's script in the light of his broader ideas about tragedy, which he argues were informed by Hegel and Marx, he also contrasts Brecht's approach with the Schopenhauerian thinking of Samuel Beckett. This volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. This part of the book looks at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J. P. Clark's The Goat (1961), and explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of non-white authors and audiences.
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192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 23, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350139787 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 129 × 198 × 25 mm · 312 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Shepherd, Mr Simon |
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