The transformations of tragedy : Christian influences from early modern to modern / edited by Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning, Erik Tonning, Joylon Mitchel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tonning, Fionnuala O'Neill, editor.

Tonning, Erik, 1977- editor.

Mitchell, Jolyon P., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts ; v.16.

Studies in religion and the arts, 1877-3192 ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

European drama (Tragedy).

Christianity and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Contents:

Intro; The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Early Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity; 1 Early Modern Tragedy and the Mystery Plays: New Material Evidence; 2 Christianity, Staging, and Ambivalence: Tragedy as Via Negativa in Shakespeare and After; 3 Tragedy and Iconoclasm; 4 Pity and Neo-Stoicism in Webster's The Duchess Of Malfi

5 Reformation Theology and the Christianization of Tragedy: Neoclassicism, Epistemology and Tragic Spectacle in the Christus Patiens DramaPart 2: Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity; 6 The Grave of Greek Tragedy: Hegel Reading Oedipus at Colonus; 7 Nietzsche's Crossings: Nihilism, Tragedy, Christianity; 8 'What Festivals of Atonement, What Sacred Games We have to Invent' (Friedrich Nietzsche): Modernist Tragedy after the Death of God; 9 Modernism, Tragedy, and Christianity: Beckett and the Theatre of Racine; Part 3: Tragedy and Christianity in Transformation: Towards the Present

10 'Is this the Promised End?' Shakespearean Tragedy and a Christian Tragic Theology for Today11 Transforming the Massacre of the Innocents through Literature, Art, Theatre and Film; 12 Tragedy, Recognition and the War on Terror; Afterword: Thoughts on Fidelity; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2019).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9789004416543

9004416544

Publisher Number:

99984096678

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.