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[First edition]. |
| Description |
335 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Nature of tragedy: Problem of definition -- Philosophical implications -- Beginnings of tragedy: Ritual origins -- Homeric poems -- Greek tragedy: Cultural background -- Aeschylus, the pioneer -- Sophocles -- Euripides, the rebel -- Epilogue: Decline to Seneca -- Elizabethan tragedy: Medieval and Renaissance background -- Beginnings: Marlowe -- Shakespeare -- Decline to the restoration -- Neo-classical tragedy: Age of Louis XIV -- "Great and good" Corneille -- "Tender" Racine -- Age of Enlightenment -- Modern tragedy: Peculiar issues -- Romantic tragedy: Wagner -- Bourgeois tragedy: Ibsen -- Naturalistic tragedy: Strindberg and Hauptmann -- Realism of Chekhov -- Poetic drama: T. S. Eliot -- Existentialist tragedy: Sartre -- Tragedy in America: O'Neill -- Conclusion: Some contrasts with the ancient East -- Value of tragedy. |
| Subject |
Tragedy.
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Tragedy -- History and criticism.
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