A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TRAGEDY
VOLUME 6
A Cultural History of Tragedy
General Editor: Rebecca Bushnell
Volume 1
A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Edited by Emily Wilson
Volume 2
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T. Sebastian, and Carol Symes
Volume 3
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Naomi Liebler
Volume 4
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Mitchell Greenberg
Volume 5
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
Edited by Michael Gamer and Diego Saglia
Volume 6
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age
Edited by Jennifer Wallace
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Paul Nash. We Are Making a New World. 1918.
Alberto Giacometti. Walking Man II.
Khmer Rouge prisoners of the S21 Tuoi Sleng security prison under Pol Pots regime, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, about to be killed.
An unidentified Tutsi man who survived the Civil War in Rwanda, June 1994.
Residents from the nearby city of Weimar walking with eyes averted past a pile of corpses in the courtyard of Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation, April 1945.
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., April 1968.
Atomic Shadow. The shadow of a ladder and a Japanese soldier after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the U.S. in August 1945.
A child laborer carrying coal he has scavenged from the edge of an open-pit coal mine on former agricultural land in Jharkhand State, northeast India. 2010.
Firefighters stand in the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center, New York City, September 13, 2001.
CHAPTER 1
Mount Olympus, created and directed by Jan Fabre. Foreign Affairs 2015, Berliner Festspielhaus.
Heine Mllers Hamletmaschine. Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 1990.
Paul Klee. Angelus Novus. 1920.
The Wooster Groups Hamlet at The Performing Garage, New York City, 2007.
Richard Mosse. Moria in Snow, Lesbos, Greece, 2017.
CHAPTER 2
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
A shadow of a man is cast upon one of the 72,000 names of soldiers killed in the Battle of the Somme. Thiepval Memorial.
A fresco along the memorial Slave Route depicting slaves compelled to circle the Tree of Forgetfulness before being forcibly shipped off to the New World. Ouidah, Benin.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama and King Filipe VI of Spain view Picassos Guernica in the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. July 2017.
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna, created by Rachel Whiteread.
CHAPTER 3
Isadora Duncan dancing.
Edward Gordon Craig. Hecuba. 1908.
Brecht. Antigonemodel. Photographed by Ruth Berlau. 1948.
CHAPTER 4
Jean-Paul Sartres The Flies, directed by Juergen Fehling, at the Hebbel Theater, Berlin, 1955.
Simone de Beauvoirs The Useless Mouths. Theatre of Carrefours, Paris. October 1945.
CHAPTER 5
Larry Burrows photograph of a grieving widow crying over the remains of her husband killed by the Viet Cong during the Tet offensive the previous year. Vietnam, 1969.
Oren Goldenberg. Requiem for Douglass. 2015.
Teresa Margolles. Plancha. 2010.
Doris Salcedo. Shibboleth. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. 2007.
CHAPTER 6
Dustin Hoffman (as Willy Loman) and John Malkovich (as Biff Loman) in a staged-for-television version of Death of a Salesman, 1985.
Japanese salarymen. Tokyo, 1980s.
Becketts Happy Days, directed by Deborah Warner at Bam Harvey Theater, New York City. January 2008.
CHAPTER 7
An American family in a backyard bomb shelter. Garden City, New York. 1955.
A group of women, under a Womens Liberation banner, march in support of the Black Panther Party. New Haven, Connecticut, November 1969.
Romeo Castelluccis On the Concept of the Face, regarding the Son of God, for Socetas Raffaello Sanzio. Barbican Theatre, London. April 2011.
A young couple dance with joy in Athens Syntagma Square during a political demonstration to celebrate the No result in a popular referendum. May 2015.
CHAPTER 8
Billie Piper in Lorcas Yerma: Young Vic, London, August 2016.
Sondheims Pacific Overtures, directed by John Doyle. Classic Stage Company, New York, May 2017.
A Midsummer Nights Dream, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins. Young Vic, London, February 2017.
Caryl Churchills Escaped Alone, directed by James Macdonald. Royal Court Theatre, London. January 2016.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the author of Theatre and Governance in Britain, 15001900: Democracy, Disorder and the State (2017).
Klina Gotman is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the English Department at Kings College London and author of Choreomania: Dance and Disorder (2018) and Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of (2018) as well as co-editor with Tony Fisher of Theatre, Performance, Foucault! (forthcoming).
David Kornhaber is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Theatre & Knowledge (2019) and The Birth of Theatre from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama (2016) and the co-editor with James Loehlin of Tom Stoppard in Context (forthcoming).
Drew Milne is the Judith E. Wilson Reader in Poetics in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. His collected poems, In Darkest Capital, were published in 2017.
Ramona Mosse is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a former Fellow of the International Research Center for Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Free University Berlin. She is the co-editor (with Minou Arjomand) of Erika Fischer Lichtes The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies (2014). She also works as a dramaturg and translator.
Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts at Kings College London, and Director of the Centre for Arts and the Sacred at Kings. He is editor of the Visual Commentary on Scripture (TheVCS.org) and author of Theology and the Drama of History (2005).
P.A. Skantze directs and writes for and about theater and performance in Italy and London. Reader in Performance Practices at Roehampton University, she is the author of Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre (2003) and Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle (2013).
