Fisher, Tony (2019) Politics of City and Nation: Tragic Politics and the Incommunicable Experience. In: A Cultural History of Tragedy In the Modern Age. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 109-126. ISBN 978-1-4742-8809-5

Abstract

The chapter examines the nature of 'tragic experience' in modern theatre from Arthur Miller to Heiner Müller, arguing that while the modern stage eschewed the classical tradition of tragic drama, what it nonetheless discovered, through the ghastly lessons of the twentieth-century, was a new kind of tragic experience that it made thematic: the death of experience itself - where tragedy permeates the very essence of everyday living.