Tragedy: A Student Handbook - Couverture souple

English & Media Centre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190610106X ISBN 13 : 9781906101060

Editeur : English & Media Centre, 2009

Synopsis

Tragedy: A Student Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to tragedy, designed for advanced level and undergraduate students. It provides clear explanations of key concepts in tragedy and changing ideas about tragedy over time, from classical theories and Renaissance thinking through to modern interpretations. There are short introductions to broad periods and contexts - Greek tragedy, Renaissance tragedy, European playwrights of the late 19th century, modern American tragedy, modern British tragedy and modern Irish tragedy - as well as accounts of the work of significant playwrights, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Webster, Marlowe, Ibsen, Beckett, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Brian Friel. Key plays are explored in more detail. These include: Oedipus, all Shakespeare's major tragedies, The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, A Doll's House, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of A Salesman, All My Sons, , A View from the Bridge, Playboy of the Western World, Shadow of a Gunman and Translations.The text includes short extracts from criticism, a glossary of terms and questions to provoke reflection on the way individual plays use the tragic form.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The text is written by Dr Sean McEvoy (whose other books include Shakespeare the Basics and Hamlet: A Sourcebook) , with additional material by Tony Coult (About Friel) and Chris Sandford. All three authors are regular writers for emagazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: English & Media Centre
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190610106X
• ISBN 13: 9781906101060
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible