What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.
What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.
Blair Hoxby is Professor of English at Stanford University. After graduating with an A. B. from Harvard University, he studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned his Ph.D. from Yale University. Before arriving at Stanford, he was an Associate Professor of English at Yale and an Associate Professor of History and Literature at Harvard. He is the author of Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton and the co-editor of Milton in the Long Restoration. He is writing a book on baroque theater and editing essay collections on tragedy in the Trans-Atlantic Enlightenment, on tragedy during the European Enlightenment, and on opera and tragedy from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Inhaltsangabe
The Philosophy of the Tragic and the Poetics of Tragedy 1: Our Tragic Culture 2: An Early Modern Poetics of Tragedy The World We Have Lost 3: Simple Pathetic Tragedy 4: Operatic Discoveries 5: Counter-Reformation Tragedy 6: History as Tragedy, Tragedy as Design Bibliography
The Philosophy of the Tragic and the Poetics of Tragedy 1: Our Tragic Culture 2: An Early Modern Poetics of Tragedy The World We Have Lost 3: Simple Pathetic Tragedy 4: Operatic Discoveries 5: Counter-Reformation Tragedy 6: History as Tragedy, Tragedy as Design Bibliography
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