Tag: Tragedy

Free Download E. Wright, "Florida Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 149302874X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 4.7 mb
Facing Unimaginable Events With Courage

Free Download Mitchell Greenberg, "A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment "
English | ISBN: 1474288057 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society’s cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s.

Free Download Emily Wilson, "A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 1474287891 | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage.

Free Download Herb Frazier, Marjory Wentworth, "We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel"
English | 2016 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0718077318 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational movement.

Free Download Tatsha Robertson, "Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye"
English | 2015 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1941631606 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye.

Free Download Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause: The Anxious Womb
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303127203X | 458 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and triumph"
English | 2006 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1846030382 | PDF | 45,6 mb
The first day of the Battle of the Somme of World War I (1914-1918) is still on record as having the largest number of deaths in any one day in any war. This book explores the myths of this infamous battle, and the use of mines, tunnels, gas and flame-throwers by the British in combination with innovative tactics such as smoke. Andrew Robertshaw analyses the first day of the battle, explaining how British tactics developed as a result of the experience of the Somme, and provides an overview of the events along the entire front line, examining the actions of two British Corps, VIII at Serre and XIII at Montauban.

Free Download D. G. Webster, "Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries (Politics, Science, and the Environment)"
English | 2017 | pages: 483 | ISBN: 0262534738, 0262029553 | PDF | 2,6 mb
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."

Free Download The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani by Michael Wolff, Audible Originals
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08KSHMCCL | MP3@128 kbps | 2h 8m | 57 Mb
From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury, comes the mesmerizing story behind the most bizarre melt-down in recent American political history.
The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from "America’s Mayor" to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he put himself at the heart of impeachment charges against the President.

Free Download The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy (Audiobook)
English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B093HYHDTQ | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 11m | 843 MB
Author: Michael Kulikowski | Narrator: Simon Shepherd
The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian’s rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited.