Eclipse of action : tragedy and political economy / Richard Halpern.

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging s...

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Main Author: Halpern, Richard, 1954- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Physical Description:viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a "Thy bloody and invisible hand": tragedy and political economy -- Greek tragedy and the raptor economy: the Oresteia -- Marlowe's theater of night: Doctor Faustus and capital -- Hamlet and the work of death -- The same old grind: Milton's Samson as subtragic hero -- Hegel, Marx, and the novelization of tragedy -- Beckett's tragic pantry -- Postscript: after Beckett. 
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