The Transformations of Tragedy —— Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern

----- 悲剧的转变：受基督教近代至现代的影响

ISBN: 9789004416536 出版年：2019 页码：340 Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning Erik Tonning Jolyon Mitchell Brill

The transformations of tragedy: christian influences from early modern to modern explores the influence of christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of christianity's creative influence upon experimental forms of western tragic drama. Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in church history, yet christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of ch