Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

by Christoph Menke

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114556X
• ISBN13: 9780231145565
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher