Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis

<p>What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline Mario Telò brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis Antigone Bacchae Hecuba Oedipus the King Prometheus Bound and Trojan Women our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and to an extent epitomized by tragic characters. <p/>Structured around four thematic clusters - Air Time Faces Communities Ruins and Insurrections - this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational political and ecological) the pandemic coincides with the queer unhistoricism of tragedy and its collapsing of present past and future readerships.</p>