Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays

By Louis Fantasia

In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today's audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides' Medea, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jean Racine's Ph dre, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Fantasia discusses in detail each of these plays, framing them in a contemporary context that explores the suffering, responsibility, and identity that tragedy advocates.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810885085
• ISBN13: 9780810885080
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher