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MODERN TRAGEDY - JAMES MORAN KARTONIERT (TB)

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary
political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in
different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current
situation in an age of ecocidal crisis  Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from
throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's Riders
to the Sea (1904)  which shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic
drama. Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Señora Carrar's
Rifles  and situates Brecht's script in the light of the theatre practitioner's broader ideas
about tragedy. Brecht's tragic thinking - informed by Hegel and Marx - is contrasted with the
Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose
ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's
Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. Looking at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin
(1954)  and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961)  Modern Tragedy explores how tragedy  a form that is
often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony  might be rethought  and how
aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of authors and audiences
of colour.

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