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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4 by Greenberg, Mitchell (editor);Bushnell, Rebecca (editor);Wilson, Emily (editor);Enders, Jody (editor);Liebler, Naomi (editor);Greenberg, Mitchell (editor);Gamer, Michael (editor);Wallace, Jennifer (editor);Coletti, Theresa (editor);Sebastian, John T. (editor);Symes, Carol (editor);Saglia, Diego (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The period covered by this volume in the 'Cultural History of Tragedy' set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society’s cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France’s military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France’s two greatest playwrights ― Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) ― which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire’s

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Author
Greenberg, Mitchell (editor);Bushnell, Rebecca (editor);Wilson, Emily (editor);Enders, Jody (editor);Liebler, Naomi (editor);Greenberg, Mitchell (editor);Gamer, Michael (editor);Wallace, Jennifer (editor);Coletti, Theresa (editor);Sebastian, John T. (editor);Symes, Carol (editor);Saglia, Diego (editor)
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9781474288057
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Literary Fiction, Arts

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