Tom Thumb and the Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 140
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Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1460402464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of “false scholarship.” This edition includes the text of the play itself and the text of the extraordinary notes (by Fielding’s pseudonym “H. Scriblerus Secundus”), appearing in facing page layout; extensive explanatory notes for the modern reader appear at the bottom of the page. Also included are a substantial introduction and a wide range of background materials that set the work in the context of its time. These contextual materials include contemporary reviews, excerpts from the plays that Fielding’s parody most frequently targeted, and selections from works that provided inspiration for The Tragedy of Tragedies—from contemporary versions of the “Tom Thumb” folktale to satirical writing by authors such as Alexander Pope, John Gay, and George Villiers.
Author: Henry Fielding
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond R. MacCurdy
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 197 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author: Miriam Leonard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-06-08
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0674743938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
Author: William Tydeman
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Federico García Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780811200929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere in the authorized translation by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O'Connell, with an illuminating biographical introduction by the poet's brother, Francisco García Lorca, are three tragic dramas by the great modern Spanish poet and playwright which have caught the imagination and won the critical acclaim of the literate world.
Author: Hal Brands
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0300244924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “brilliant” examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation’s—and the world’s—security at risk (The Wall Street Journal). The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate. Today, after more than seventy years of great-power peace and a quarter-century of unrivaled global leadership, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history. This amnesia has become most pronounced just as Americans and the global order they created are coming under graver threat than at any time in decades. In a forceful argument that brims with historical sensibility and policy insights, two distinguished historians argue that a tragic sensibility is necessary if America and its allies are to address the dangers that menace the international order today. Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, Huntington, and similar authors as well as students of modern realpolitik.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author: Benjamin Dewey
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 146686608X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenjamin Dewey's The Tragedy Series is an addictive collection of funny-sad comics based on the popular Tumblr blog. Welcome and good tidings, ladies, gentlemen, and all manner of upstanding, sentient beasts. The book you hold in your hands (pinchers, tentacles, paws, etc.), is a guide to avoiding the more common pitfalls that appear after parting ways with lady luck. You need not be duped by a collection of rats in an elaborate costume, dressed as a handsome suitor, or experience the embarrassment so many have already endured after bringing their ordinarily well-behaved, large sea mammal to an art gallery only to see cultural treasures defiled by inadvertent clumsiness arising from a frame better built for the confines of Poseidon's realm. More than five hundred unfortunate results of the manifold paths our life may offer have been helpfully diagramed for you along with positive affirmations of this veil's wonders and much more! Alexander the Great once remarked that "upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all" and his words may be taken as injunction to obtain this volume for your very own to ensure the continued security of our very civilization.
Author: Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1139502344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.