Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of GenreA unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as 'sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as 'sacrifical victims of the prevailing social order'.A fascinating examination of Shakespearean tragedy, this extraordinary book will provoke excitment and controversy alike. |
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre Naomi Conn Liebler Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |
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ambiguity ambivalence Antony argues Aristotle Aristotle’s Artaud audience Bassianus behavior body Bolingbroke Brecht bricolage Brutus Brutus’s Cain calls celebration ceremony character Claudius Claudius’s communitas community’s conflict constructed context Coriolanus Coriolanus’s crisis critical cultural custom cycle play death definition Derrida discourse distinction drama Elizabethan England father festive function genre Girard Goths hamartia Hamlet hero hero’s Herodian hierarchy hobby-horse human identified identity inversion Julius Caesar killed kind King Lear king’s Lear’s liminality Lupercal Lupercalia Macbeth marginal meaning misrecognition modern murder narrative omophagia paradox passage performance pharmakos plague play’s Plutarch political problematic protagonist relation representation represented Richard Richard II rites ritual ritual action ritual practice ritualistic Roman Rome Romeo Romulus sacrifice says scene secular sense Shakespeare’s play Shakespearean tragedy social society sparagmos specific status structure survival symbolic Tamora theater theatrical thou Titus Andronicus Titus’s traditional tragic transformation translation Turner victim victimage Victor Turner violation violence