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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.

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn t be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world s most enduring art forms.Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality