Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

ISBN-13: 9780300058055 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 290 str.

Bennett Simon

Opis

One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama--as of psychoanalysis-- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.