The Story of Drama
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4081-8312-0 (ISBN)
Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation.
Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia, Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmorphia, Menander’s The Bad-Tempered Man, the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's The Trojan Women, Plautus's The Rope, the Cycle plays and Everyman from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Middleton's The Revenger’s Tragedy, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Otway's The Orphan, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, Beckett' Waiting for Godot, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy. A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.
Gary Day recently retired as principal lecturer at De Montfort University, UK, where he taught courses on the history of drama, the eighteenth century, modernism, contemporary drama and contemporary fiction. He is the author of Literary Criticism: A New History (2008) and Modernist Literature: 1890-1950 (2010). He has edited a dozen books, the latest being The Wiley Encyclopaedia of British Eighteenth Century Literature (2015) with Jack Lynch. He has contributed to the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and to the Oxford Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. He has also been a regular columnist and reviewer for the Times Higher.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Sacrifice
Chapter 2: Tragedy, Comedy and Ritual
Chapter 3: Greek Tragedy and Comedy and Sacrifice
Chapter 4: Roman Tragedy and Comedy and Sacrifice
Chapter 5: Medieval Tragedy and Comedy
Chapter 6: Renaissance Tragedy and Comedy and Sacrifice
Chapter 7: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Tragedy and Comedy and Sacrifice
Chapter 8: Victorian Melodrama, Comedy, Naturalism and Sacrifice
Chapter 9: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries
Conclusion: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice in Popular Culture
Notes
Index
About the Author
Verlagsort | London |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 432 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4081-8312-9 / 1408183129 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4081-8312-0 / 9781408183120 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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