Tragedy as a Travelling Form
Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its forms. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars of classics, Engl...
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| description | Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its forms. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars of classics, English, German and French literature, postcolonial literature, musicology and theatre and performance studies, it provides a multifaceted overview of form processes related to travelling. It presents tragedy as a dynamic figuration that emerges, stabilizes and transforms through relocation and adaptation. The collection begins with the tragedies of Antiquity and then investigates the 17th and 18th centuries, from Shakespeare to Voltaire, as a laboratory for the formal transformation of tragedy, inextricably linked to the social and political changes of that time. The volume concludes with travelling tragedies in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section focuses on two former colonies on the African continent (Nigeria and South Africa) as an exemplary field for exploring form travel in the postcolonial, globalized present, in which tragic forms have become transcultural and are circulating so fast that they can no longer be easily related to concepts of locality, nation or continent. Arguing that the strategies that made tragedy portable also expanded its formal potential, this book also discusses the migration of tragedy as a process of form itself. While adaptation studies frequently focuses on the political dimensions of transcultural modifications of tragic plots, this book suggests that formal concerns are also political and social matters. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Konstanz. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1756592026-04-20T08:10:05Z Tragedy as a Travelling Form Lammers, Philipp Vogel, Juliane Wald, Christina Tragedy scholarship Tragedy studies Theatre studies Literary criticism Postcolonial literature Postcolonial literary studies Greek tragedy Ancient tragedy Early modern tragedy Renaissance tragedy Early modern opera Early modern theatre Voltaire Shakespeare Wulf Sachs Hamlet Nigerian theatre Nigerian literature Femi Osofisan Wesóo Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet RSC Hamlet 2016 South African theatre South African literature Tragedy and apartheid Decolonization thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDT Tragic plays Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its forms. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars of classics, English, German and French literature, postcolonial literature, musicology and theatre and performance studies, it provides a multifaceted overview of form processes related to travelling. It presents tragedy as a dynamic figuration that emerges, stabilizes and transforms through relocation and adaptation. The collection begins with the tragedies of Antiquity and then investigates the 17th and 18th centuries, from Shakespeare to Voltaire, as a laboratory for the formal transformation of tragedy, inextricably linked to the social and political changes of that time. The volume concludes with travelling tragedies in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section focuses on two former colonies on the African continent (Nigeria and South Africa) as an exemplary field for exploring form travel in the postcolonial, globalized present, in which tragic forms have become transcultural and are circulating so fast that they can no longer be easily related to concepts of locality, nation or continent. Arguing that the strategies that made tragedy portable also expanded its formal potential, this book also discusses the migration of tragedy as a process of form itself. While adaptation studies frequently focuses on the political dimensions of transcultural modifications of tragic plots, this book suggests that formal concerns are also political and social matters. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Konstanz. 2026-04-20T08:10:04Z 2026-04-20T08:10:04Z 2026-04-16T11:10:34Z 2025 book ONIX_20260415T184305_9781350466371_35 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112390 9781350466371 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175659 eng open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Methuen Drama b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350466371 Methuen Drama 280 London open access |
| spellingShingle | Tragedy scholarship Tragedy studies Theatre studies Literary criticism Postcolonial literature Postcolonial literary studies Greek tragedy Ancient tragedy Early modern tragedy Renaissance tragedy Early modern opera Early modern theatre Voltaire Shakespeare Wulf Sachs Hamlet Nigerian theatre Nigerian literature Femi Osofisan Wesóo Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet RSC Hamlet 2016 South African theatre South African literature Tragedy and apartheid Decolonization thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDT Tragic plays Tragedy as a Travelling Form |
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| topic | Tragedy scholarship Tragedy studies Theatre studies Literary criticism Postcolonial literature Postcolonial literary studies Greek tragedy Ancient tragedy Early modern tragedy Renaissance tragedy Early modern opera Early modern theatre Voltaire Shakespeare Wulf Sachs Hamlet Nigerian theatre Nigerian literature Femi Osofisan Wesóo Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet RSC Hamlet 2016 South African theatre South African literature Tragedy and apartheid Decolonization thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDT Tragic plays |
| topic_facet | Tragedy scholarship Tragedy studies Theatre studies Literary criticism Postcolonial literature Postcolonial literary studies Greek tragedy Ancient tragedy Early modern tragedy Renaissance tragedy Early modern opera Early modern theatre Voltaire Shakespeare Wulf Sachs Hamlet Nigerian theatre Nigerian literature Femi Osofisan Wesóo Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet RSC Hamlet 2016 South African theatre South African literature Tragedy and apartheid Decolonization thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDT Tragic plays |
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