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Subject(s)

• Tragedy [Browse]
• Time in literature [Browse]
• Time in motion pictures [Browse]
• Time travel in motion pictures [Browse]
• Video games—Design [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Tragedies (Drama) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tragedies [Browse]

Series

Palgrave pivot [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new media can challenge common assumptions about tragic causality and fate. Traditional tragedies may present us with a present when a calamity is staged, a decisive moment in which everything changes. However, modern performance, adaptation and new media can question the premises of that kind of present crisis and its fatality. By offering replays or alternative endings, experimental theatre, adaptation, time travel films and videogames reinvent the tragic experience of irreversible present time. This book offers the reader a fresh understanding of tragic character and agency through these new media's exposure of the genre's deep structure"--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-101) and index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Time, Choice, and Consequences in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
• 2. Tragic Adaptation and Performance: Undoing the Play
• 3. Time-Travel Films: Replaying Time, Choice, and Action
• 4. Tragic Time and Choice in Videogames.

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ISBN

• 9781137585257 ((hardback : acid-free paper))
• 1137585250

LCCN

2016952877

OCLC

957533366

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