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Tragic Play

Name: Tragic Play
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 04558668
Price: 88.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Christoph Menke
ISBN: 9780231145565

Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Christoph Menke

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04558668

Publishers Columbia University Press, June 2009

Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to... Full description

Libristo code: 04558668

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Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, and Botho Strauss, Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of play." In Hamlet, Endgame, Philoktet, and Ithaka, Menke integrates philosophical theory with critical readings to investigate shifting terms of judgment, curse, reversal, misfortune, and violence.