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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES PREFACE -- GENERAL EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- GENRE TROUBLE: TRAGEDY, COMEDY, AND THE CONFUSION DES GENRES -- HISTORIOGRAPHY TROUBLE: THAT ABSENCE WHICH IS NOT ONE -- AUDIENCE TROUBLE: CATHARSIS AND CONTROL -- CHAPTER ONE Forms and Media -- ANCIENT TRAGEDIES AND MEDIEVAL MEDIA -- FORMS OF TRAGEDY IN THE EMERGING LATIN WEST -- MEDIEVAL MODES OF CONVEYANCE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER TWO Sites of Performance and Circulation -- TOWARDS A POETICS OF MEDIEVAL TRAGIC PLACE -- THE SONG OF SYBIL, CASTILE AND CATALONIA(THIRTEENTH THROUGH SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- FARSA DEL JUEGO DE CAÑAS , TALAVERA LA REAL (1554) -- DANCES OF DEATH, PAN-EUROPEAN (FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- LLIBRE VERMELL , MONTSERRAT ( c. 1399-1400) -- DANÇA GENERAL DE LA MUERTE (COMPOSED c. 1392, COPIED c. 1460-80) -- THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE, EAST ANGLIA ( c. 1440) -- ORDINALIA , CORNWALL (LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY) -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE Communities of Production and Consumption -- NICHOLAS TREVET, TRANSLATOR STUDII -- TRAGEDY'S ORIGIN: THE FALL OF ADAM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FOUR Philosophy and Social Theory -- I. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- II. THE LEGACIES OF LATE ANTIQUE THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL MUSICAL PRAXIS -- III. TRAGEDY AND SOCIETY IN BYZANTIUM47 -- IV. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL WEST -- V. THE USES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES: CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, AND MUSLIM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE Religion, Ritual and Myth -- I. THEATER VS. AMPHITHEATER -- II. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY -- III. THE TRAGEDY OF MARTYRDOM -- IV. THE MEDIEVAL RENASCENCE OF TRAGEDY -- EPILOGUE: THE SENECAN RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND.

Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, the wedding, and death ritual. Two papers focus on the shaping power of mystic initiation in two famous passages in the New Testament. The other key factor in the historical context of tragedy is the recent monetisation of Athens. One paper explores the presence of money in Greek tragedy, another the shaping influence of money on Wagner's Ring and on his Aeschylean model. Other papers reveal the influence of ritual and money on representations of the inner self, and on Greek and Indian philosophy. A final piece finds in Greek tragedy horror at the destructive unlimitedness of money that is still central to our postmodern world

This collection of fifteen essays deals with the literary memoirs of major twentieth-century writers and focuses on the spiritual, physical and moral devastation of 20th century life. They are comparative and cross-cultural. There is no other collection of essays with this range brought under one cover

"A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture. In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture -- from literature and politics, to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as key figures in theater, from Sophocles and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Ibsen. Eagleton examines the political nature of tragedy, looking closely at its connection with periods of historical transition. The dramatic form originated not as a meditation on the human condition, but at moments of political engagement, when civilizations struggled with the conflicts that beset them. Tragedy, Eagleton demonstrates, is fundamental to human experience and culture."--Publisher's description.

After a brief look at Cambodia's geographic and historical background, the author explores the rise and fall of party politics after 1945, royal socialist dictatorship under Prince Norodom Sihanouk, background of the coup in March 1970 that overthrew Sihanouk, invasion of eastern Cambodia by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in 1970, "Agreement ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam" of January 1973, American bombings of Cambodia between 1969 and 1973, establishment of Democratic Kampuchea (DK) in April 1975, causes of the DK aberration, violence against people, background of the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia, founding of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), economic, political and social changes in the PRK, the international diplomatic campaign against the PRK, formation of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGJK), prospects for ending the Cambodian conflict among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

These essays mount a powerful critique of the tragic hero as representative of the errors and sufferings of humankind. From a variety of critical perspectives—including feminist new historicism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and autobiographical criticism—authors examine Shakespeare's construction of tragic subjectivity, the location of women in the scene of tragic action, and the social discourses that combine to elevate the hero's status while marginalizing, silencing, or eliminating female authority and presence. While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume also covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.