Download Free Tragedies In The Royal Court Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Tragedies In The Royal Court and write the review.

The mysterious disappearance of Princes in the Tower. The notoriety of the reign of Henry VIII which festooned the royal court with both splendor and brutalities. The nymphomaniac Catherine the Great who expanded her empire beyond borders just as she expanded her list of young lovers. Adulterous princes, kings and emperors who took scandal to the extremes by regularly stacking the royal bedroom with a succession of mistresses, as if infidelity is cool. Neurotic rulers who were delighted with tortures and murders. Delusional kings who made themselves believed they were something else other than human beings. This compilation of scathing intrigues in the royal court is beyond history. It exposes the dark side of royalty, its foolishness and stupidity, the savagery, waywardness and other nonsensical assortments which will make you realize that royals, after all, "never lived happily ever after."
This is a spicy anthology of scandals and controversies that overshadowed the privileged lives of the European royals across all ages, highlighting the tragic side of the royal myth, from crime mysteries, tragic death, vicious family secrets, to scandalous marriages and neurotic and criminally-insane royals. Written in a very plain and simple context, this book aims to help readers, especially those who are not devoted royal followers, understand the intricacies of the royal world in a clear-cut sense. This compilation of scathing intrigues in the royal court, which includes the long-forgotten saga of the pretenders to the throne and the changes adopted by the modern royals in response to the call of times, is beyond history. It exposes the dark side of royalty, its foolishness and stupidity, the savagery, waywardness and other nonsensical assortments which will make you realize that royals, after all, "never lived happily ever after"
Tragedy and the Royal Court. Two metaphors of great contradiction. One manifests disaster, the other demonstrates splendor. However, in the exalted world of European royalty, disaster and splendor often go along. Contrary to the allegory of fairy tales, the lives of royals are far from beautiful legends and happy endings. Back to the old days, the royal houses had series of catastrophic reigns and were plagued by all types of crisis, from political to psychological. Tales of Royal Tragedies book is a compilation of scathing royal intrigues, which includes the long-forgotten saga of the pretenders to the throne and the changes adopted by the modern royals, is beyond history. It exposes the dark side of the royal myth.
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work. Carney's attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.
"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner that borders on the choral ... Birch has provided a text that explores these ideas in a formally invigorating way." The Stage Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. A powerful, unflinching look at a family afflicted with severe depression and mental illness. Presented as a triptych of plays performed side by side, this groundbreaking play reverberates with audiences and readers. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features a brand new introduction by Ava Davies.
Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and avant-garde theatre. Postdramatic Tragedies focuses upon such experimental reinventions and analyses receptions of Greek and Roman tragedy that come under the banner of 'postdramatic theatre', a style of performance in which the traditional components of drama, such as character and narrative, are subordinate to the immediate, affective power of more abstract elements, such as image and sound. The chapters are arranged into three parts, each of which explores classical reception within a specific strand of postdramatic theatre: text-based theatre, devised theatre, and theatre that transcends the usual boundaries of time and space, such as durational and immersive theatre. Each offers a semiotic and phenomenological analysis of a particular case study, covering both widely known and less studied productions from 1995 to 2015. Together they reveal that postdramatic theatre is related to the classics at its conceptual core, and that the study of postdramatic tragedies reveals a great deal about both the evolution of theatre in recent decades, and the status of ancient drama in modernity.
A new play from the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
William Shakespeare explores political survival as a question of interaction at court in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Through a discussion of authority as an element that is distinct from power, this book offers a new perspective on the importance of acts of persuasion and the contribution the late tragedies make to Shakespeare’s portrayal of monarchy. It argues that the most productive uses of the material power to judge or reward are those that reinforce royal authority and establish the monarch at the centre of the web of noble relationships. In the late tragedies, rulership is exercised at court. It acquires a nature of its own as the interaction of powerful and potentially powerful individuals among the nobility. The persuasive exercise of authority complements the tangible power that is founded on the monarch’s material resources, so that consent to the monarch’s supremacy is obtained through various discourses of justification and the performance of the monarch’s social role. Shakespeare’s combination of emotional intimacy with political concerns becomes central to the tragedies of these three plays when the failure to establish control over power and authority leads to the breakdown of established values and political traditions.
A critical examination of Hans Urs von Balthasar'stheological aesthetics of tragedy and literature, using as a conversationpartner the novels of Thomas Hardy.