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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Tragic Play
• Subtitle: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett
• Author: Christoph Menke
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780231145565
• ISBN: 023114556X
• ID: 04558668
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. June 2009

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