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Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Menke, Christoph
Phillips, James

Hardcover

Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 023114556X
ISBN13: 9780231145565
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jul 7 2009
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 Müller, 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.

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