Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays

by Louis Fantasia

In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today's audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides' Medea, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jean Racine's Ph dre, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810885085
• ISBN13: 9780810885080
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher