This introduction offers an overview of tragic drama from the ancient Greeks, through Shakespeare, Racine and Ibsen, and to the present day. It explores the definition of 'tragedy', as it has been discussed by philosophers, and includes chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett.
This introduction offers an overview of tragic drama from the ancient Greeks, through Shakespeare, Racine and Ibsen, and to the present day. It explores the definition of 'tragedy', as it has been discussed by philosophers, and includes chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett.
1. Approaching the subject 2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks 2.2. Seneca and Racine 2.3. Shakespeare 2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov 2.5. American tragedy 2.6. Postcolonial tragedy 2.7. Beckett Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment Case studies 2: Language 3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle 3.2. Hegel 3.3. Nietzsche 3.4. Kierkegaard 3.5. Camus 3.6. Girard Case studies 1: Fate Case studies 2: Politics Case studies 3: Gender 4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture 4.2. Novel 4.3. Film 4.4. Psychoanalysis 4.5. Theology 5. Coda: Tragic sites Bibliography.
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'A lucid, intelligent, wide-ranging introduction to a subject of growing centrality in both criticism and political life' Professor Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester
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