Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781032013800 / Miękka / 2023 / 192 str.

John Drakakis

Opis

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history, and is invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.

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Dedication

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1. Introduction

Myth and tragedy

Tragedy, myth and ritual

Tragedy and pleasure

 

Chapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogies

Aristotle’s Poetics

Fate, fortune and providence

 

Chapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgy

Radical tragedy

Tragedy after the Renaissance

 

Chapter 4. The philosophy of tragedy

The sublime

Schiller on tragedy

Hegel on tragedy

Bradley on Hegel

Nietzsche on tragedy

Beyond Nietzsche

 

Chapter 5. From action to character

Freud, Oedipus and Hamlet

Tragedy and the linguistic turn

 

Chapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aesthetics

Tragedy and violence

Aesthetics

 

Chapter 7. Rethinking the tradition

Dismantling tragedy

Brecht against Aristotle

Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Mother Courage and Gallileo

　

Chapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-human

Anti-humanism and post-humanism

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Sarah Kane: Phaedra’s Love (1996)

Twenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt

 

Chapter 9. Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

John Drakakis is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Stirling. His publications include Shakespeare’s Resources (2022), Alternative Shakespeares, Second Edition (2002), and Tragedy (co-edited with Naomi Conn Liebler 1998).