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.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts ; 16.

Studies in Religion and the Arts ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

European drama (Tragedy).

Christianity and literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity's creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama. 0Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Early Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity

1. Early Modern Tragedy and the Mystery Plays: New Material Evidence / Beatrice Groves

2. Christianity, Staging and Ambivalence: Tragedy as Via Negativa in Shakespeare and After / Stuart Sillars

3. Tragedy and Iconoclasm / Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning

4. Pity and Neo-Stoicism in Webster's The Duchess ofMalfi / Adrian Streete

5. Reformation Theology and the Christianization of Tragedy: Neoclassicism, Epistemology and Tragic Spectacle in the Christus Patiens Drama / Giles Waller

pt. 2 Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity

6. The Grave of Greek Tragedy: Hegel Reading Oedipus at Colonus / Peter Svare Valeur

7. Nietzsche's Crossings: Nihilism, Tragedy, Christianity / Ronan McDonald

8. `What Festivals of Atonement, What Sacred Games We have to Invent' (Friedrich Nietzsche): Modernist Tragedy after the Death of God / Olga Taxidou

9. Modernism, Tragedy, and Christianity: Beckett and the Theatre of Racine / Erik Tonning

pt. 3 Tragedy and Christianity in Transformation: Towards the Present

10. `Is this the Promised End?' Shakespearean Tragedy and a Christian Tragic Theology for Today / Paul S. Fiddes

11. Transforming the Massacre of the Innocents through Literature, Art, Theatre and Film / Limy Brady

12. Tragedy, Recognition and the War on Terror / Jennifer Wallace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789004416536

9004416536

OCLC:

1117312074

Publisher Number:

99987580218