Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.

Author: Jennifer Wallace
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09/05/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781350035614
ISBN10: 1350035610
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Politics
- Philosophy | Good & Evil

About the Author
Jennifer Wallace is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK, and editor of A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her previous books include Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007).