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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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- "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.