LEADER 03233nam 22006015 450 001 9910164955203321 005 20240605193137.0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226433790 035 $a(CKB)3710000001063986 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4805189 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001652078 035 $a(DE-B1597)524617 035 $a(OCoLC)972734388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226433790 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001063986 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEclipse of Action $eTragedy and Political Economy /$fRichard Halpern 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (322 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780226433653 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter one. "Thy Bloody and Invisible Hand" --$tChapter two. Greek Tragedy and the Raptor Economy --$tChapter three. Marlowe's Theater of Night --$tChapter four. Hamlet and the Work of Death --$tChapter five. The Same Old Grind --$tChapter six. Hegel, Marx, and the Novelization of Tragedy --$tChapter seven. Beckett's Tragic Pantry --$tPostscript. After Beckett --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAccording to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact. 606 $aTragedy$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTragedy$xThemes, motives 606 $aEconomics in literature 610 $aaction. 610 $adrama. 610 $aeconomics. 610 $aphilosophy. 610 $apolitical economy. 610 $apolitics. 610 $asociety. 610 $atheater. 610 $atragedy. 615 0$aTragedy$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTragedy$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 676 $a809.2/512 700 $aHalpern$b Richard$0866565 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164955203321 996 $aEclipse of Action$91934348 997 $aUNINA