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The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present
Gary Day
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Description for The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 454.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408183120
SKU
V9781408183120
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99-5
About Gary Day
Gary Day recently retired as principal lecturer at De Montfort University, UK, where he taught courses on the history of drama, the eighteenth century, modernism, contemporary drama and contemporary fiction. He is the author of Literary Criticism: A New History (2008) and Modernist Literature: 1890-1950 (2010). He has edited a dozen books, the latest being The Wiley Encyclopaedia of British ... Read more
Reviews for The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present
The Story of Drama is an ambitious book, richly informative, consistently readable and conscientiously argued.
Times Literary Supplement
[A] concise, valuable survey ... Its warm, conversational tone suggests that students on the De Montfort University course whose lectures informed this volume had a fine teacher indeed.
Times Higher Education
Definitely one for any sixth former doing ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
[A] concise, valuable survey ... Its warm, conversational tone suggests that students on the De Montfort University course whose lectures informed this volume had a fine teacher indeed.
Times Higher Education
Definitely one for any sixth former doing ... Read more