Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture

Play And Performance From Beckett To Shepard

by John Orr
language: english
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, September of 1991 ‧
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This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. Tragicomedy is seen as unique becuae of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture

Play And Performance From Beckett To Shepard

by John Orr

Property Description
ISBN: 9780333536971
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date: September of 1991
Language: English
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 170
Format: Book
Collection: Edinburgh Studies In Culture And Society
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
EAN: 9780333536971

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