Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays by Louis Fantasia

By Louis Fantasia

In an period of Twitter and televised remedy, it will possibly look that vintage theatre has little position in modern society. conversant in the indulgences of a celebrity-driven tradition, how can smooth audiences comprehend and interpret vintage works of drama?

In Tragedy within the Age of Oprah: Essays on 5 nice Plays, Louis Fantasia presents a provocative exam of the connection among pop culture and classical tragedy. creating a persuasive argument for the teachings tragedy has to supply today’s audiences, Fantasia examines 5 enduring works of theatre: Euripides’ Medea, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Jean Racine’s Phèdre, Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, and Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s trip into Night. Fantasia discusses intimately every one of those performs, framing them in a latest context that explores the agony, accountability, and id that tragedy advocates.

Each play is gifted as an enticing, robust come upon for the reader, recreating as heavily as attainable the impression of a superb functionality. a special examine the function classical theatre can and will play in modern society, those essays exhibit the teachings nice performs need to train us approximately ourselves. Directed towards theatre pros and students, Tragedy within the Age of Oprah also will resonate with someone attracted to theatre, literature, and cultural studies.

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