Early modern tragedy and performance

When early modern plays were staged with black curtains, ‘tragedy’ began the moment the audience entered a playhouse. ‘Tragedy’, then, did not always need to be part of a play’s content: it could be a look, an atmosphere, a theatrical mood. This chapter explores ‘tragedy’ as a kind of performance as...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Stern, T
Weitere Verfasser: Neill, M
Format: Book section
Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2016