Tragedy as a Travelling Form

Philipp Lammers is a postdoctoral scholar in Romance literatures at the University of Konstanz, Germany.Juliane Vogel is Professor for Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany.Christina Wald is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Cultural Inquiry at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

• List of IllustrationsNote on ContributorsTragedy as a Travelling Form: Introduction, Philipp Lammers, Juliane Vogel and Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)I. Antiquity: The Dissemination of Greek Tragedy1. Greek Tragedy on the Move: Travelling Tragedy and Travelling Tragedians, Edmund Stewart (University of Nottingham, UK)2. Booking a Family Trip: Greek Tragedy, Pacuvius and Roman Sequels, Antje Wessels (Leiden University, the Netherlands)3. Staging God: Transforming the Bible through Tragedy, Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge, UK)II. 17th and 18th Centuries: European Travels4. Mercurial Acting: Travelling Tragedy and Travelling Troupes in 17th- and 18th-Century Germany, Juliane Vogel (University of Konstanz, Germany)5. Casting Tragedy: Actors, Gender and Transnational Tragic Roles, Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA)6. Travelling with Orpheus in Early Modern European Opera, Dörte Schmidt (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)7. Julius Caesar, Altered. The Travels of Tragedy under Neoclassical Conditions (Voltaire, Conti), Philipp Lammers (University of Konstanz, Germany)8. Tragedy Goes Global: Voltaire, Ethnological Ethopoeia and the History of Civilization, Rahul Markovits (École normale supérieure - PSL, France)III. The Postcolonial 20th and 21st Centuries: Globalized Tragedy9. Black Hamlet and the Resistance to Travel, Tobias Döring (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)10. Perpendicular Theatres and Mammy Wagons: The Infrastructure of Tragedy in Post-Independence Nigeria, Christopher Balme (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)11. Hamlet’s Travels to Postcolonial Stages: Femi Osofisan’s Wesóo, Hamlet! or, the Resurrection of Hamlet and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 Hamlet, Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)12. Tragedy, Apartheid, (de)Coloniality, Mark Fleishman (University of Cape Town, South Africa)Index

Tragedy as a Traveling Form offers a fresh and insightful new perspective on the trans-historical and global transformation of tragedy from antiquity to now.