You Can't Spell Tragedy Without Rage
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT A powerful performance focuses and unifies the diverse perspectives of pit, box, and gallery into a singular audience and teaches it (how) to feel. Spectatorship is both an embodied and an out‐of‐body experience that encourages identification with an Other. Looking at the experience of eighteenth‐century tragedy and the impact of Mary Ann Yates (1728–1787), the celebrity actress who personified the genre for a generation, show us the centrality of rage, not pathos, to tragedy.
Source: Literature Compass
DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70021
Author: Elaine McGirr
Institution: University of Bristol
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,900
OpenAlex ID: W4408951600