Sunday Feature: Margaret are You Grieving?Series 1, episode 0A Cultural History of Weeping: Thomas Dixon, director of the UK's first Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University London, explores the history of weeping as an aesthetic response to works of art: paintings, writing, music, theatre and film. What it is about works of art and religious symbols that induce weeping and why do we shed tears over performances by actors and singers, fictional characters, abstract symbols, poems, music, metaphysical ideas - in other words things that are not real? With references to Margery Kempe, Gluck, Mark Rothko and Sophocles' Electra, plus contributions from Fiona Shaw, Miri Rubin, Giles Fraser and Ian Bostridge among others Click to see when Sunday Feature, Margaret are You Grieving? is coming up on UK TV |
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