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This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis.Kulick divides this litany of theatrical cataclysms into four distinct historical phases: the Ancients, including Euripides and Bhasa, the legendary Sanskrit dramatist; the Age of Belief, with the anonymous authors of the medieval mystery cycles, Shakespeare, and Pushkin; the Moderns, with Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Bond; and, finally, the way the world might end now, encompassing Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Anne Washburn. In tandem with the insights gleaned from these playwrights, the book draws upon the work of contemporary scientists, ecologists, and ethicists to further tease out the philosophical implications of such plays and their relevance to our own troubled times. In the end, Kulick shows how each of these ages and their respective authors have something essential to say, not only about humanity's potential end, but, more importantly, about the possibility for our collective continuance.

Théâtre --- Fin du monde --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Au théâtre.

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This Norton Critical Edition of The Last Man features Mary Shelley's original 1826 science-fiction text with editorial annotations. One of the first dystopian novels, The Last Man examines the end of Romantic ideals in British government and follows a mysterious plague which nearly wipes out the Earth's population. The "Contexts" section provides philosophies and insights from thinkers who would have influenced Mary Shelley such as Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as her contemporaries, including her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley and close friend, Lord Byron. In the "Criticism" section, scholars provide modern analyses through the lenses of feminism, race, queerness, and even the AIDS epidemic. A selected bibliography and chronology are also included.

End of the world --- Science fiction, English --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Fin du monde. --- Fiction.

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"World conflagration, flood or a simple aging and decay of the world - ancient authors dealt with concepts of the end of the world in various contexts and adapted them to their specific argumentative or poetic intentions. In doing so, one encounters a wealth of different ideas that are closely linked to the real everyday experiences of the recipients. Using a diachronic approach, the work examines which doomsday scenarios occur in which contexts and how they have been received and updated over the centuries. She places a particular focus on the questions of how early Christianity dealt with the pagan concepts of the end of the world, which elements of knowledge were used for their own positions and which representation mechanisms were used to make the concepts plausible for an early Christian target group"--

Apocalyptic literature --- End of the world in literature --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Classical literature --- Philosophy of nature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives. --- History. --- Fin du monde --- Dans la littérature. --- Apocalypse in literature --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Christian literature, Early --- End of the world --- Fin du monde dans la littérature --- Floods in literature --- Greek literature. --- Jewish literature --- Latin literature. --- Littérature ancienne --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature juive --- Littérature latine --- History and criticism. --- History of doctrines --- Histoire et critique. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- 30-600