Louis Fantasia

Tragedy in the Age of Oprah

Essays on Five Great Plays

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today's audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides' Medea, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jean Racine's Phèdre, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Fantasia discusses in detail each of these plays, framing them in a contemporary context that explores the suffering, responsibility, and identity that tragedy advocates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780810885080
• ISBN-10: 0810885085
• Artikelnr.: 36527971

Autorenporträt

Louis Fantasia has produced and directed more than 150 plays and operas worldwide. Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute from 1997 to 2002, Louis is currently director of Shakespeare at the Huntington, the teacher-training institute of the Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California and Chair of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the New York Film Academy. He is the author of Instant Shakespeare (Ivan R. Dee, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Tragedy in the Age
of Oprah Chapter 1: Medea Lives in Texas Chapter 2: King Lear or Survivor?
Chapter 3: Prozac For Phèdre Chapter 4: Mary Stuart, Passion's Martyr
Chapter 5: Long Day's Journey Into Night: The Rise and Fall of the American
Dream Bibliography