Tragedy and Tragic Theory: An Analytical GuideComprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. |
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... Aeschylus remains inexplicable solely on the level of characterization , progressing from problems of individual culpability , through issues of collective responsibility , to a final tragic impact which depends on changes in the ...
... Aeschylus presented the gods on a fairly personal level in The Oresteia . In contrast , Sophocles , who brought divine characters on stage in only two of his seven extant plays , depicted influential but distant gods . Euripides ...
... ( Aeschylus ) , 60 , 109 , 137 , 140 , 154 , 166-74 Orestes ( Euripides ) , 33 , 155 Oriental drama , 161 n.2 Original sin , 142 , 150 Orr , John , 78-79 Othello ( Shakespeare ) , 27 , 46 , 129-30 , 158 , 181 Pain in tragedy , 110-11 ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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