| Summary: | Intro -- The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Early Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity -- 1 Early Modern Tragedy and the Mystery Plays: New Material Evidence -- 2 Christianity, Staging, and Ambivalence: Tragedy as Via Negativa in Shakespeare and After -- 3 Tragedy and Iconoclasm -- 4 Pity and Neo-Stoicism in Webster's The Duchess Of Malfi -- 5 Reformation Theology and the Christianization of Tragedy: Neoclassicism, Epistemology and Tragic Spectacle in the Christus Patiens Drama -- Part 2: Modernity, Tragedy, and Christianity -- 6 The Grave of Greek Tragedy: Hegel Reading Oedipus at Colonus -- 7 Nietzsche's Crossings: Nihilism, Tragedy, Christianity -- 8 'What Festivals of Atonement, What Sacred Games We have to Invent' (Friedrich Nietzsche): Modernist Tragedy after the Death of God -- 9 Modernism, Tragedy, and Christianity: Beckett and the Theatre of Racine -- Part 3: Tragedy and Christianity in Transformation: Towards the Present -- 10 'Is this the Promised End?' Shakespearean Tragedy and a Christian Tragic Theology for Today -- 11 Transforming the Massacre of the Innocents through Literature, Art, Theatre and Film -- 12 Tragedy, Recognition and the War on Terror -- Afterword: Thoughts on Fidelity -- Index.
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