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the Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from Greeks to Present

Current price: $160.00
the Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from Greeks to Present
the Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from Greeks to Present

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the Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from Greeks to Present

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Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and drama the volume serves as an accessible companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and reveals how sacrifice represents a through-line running from classical drama to today's reality TV and blockbuster movies. Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation. Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus' trilogy , Aristophanes' , Menander's , the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's , Plautus's , the Cycle plays and from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's and , Middleton's , Jonson's , Thomas Otway's , William Wycherley's , Wilde's , Beckett' , Tennessee Williams's , Suzan-Lori Parks's , Sarah Kane's and Charlotte Jones' . A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.

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