"Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview of the genre and the history of traffic theory. Integrating a discussion of texts, conte…
1. Greeks and Romans : classical tragedy -- 2. "When the bad bleed"? early modern English tragedy -- 3. Neo-classicism, Restoration Tragedy And Sentimentality -- 4. "From hero to victim" : romantic tragedy and after -- 5. Modernism and Tragedy -- 6. The survival of tragedy. "Tr…
Greeks and Romans: Classical Tragedy -- "When the bad bleed"? Early Modern English Tragedy -- Neo-Classicism, Restoration Tragedy and Sentimentality -- "From Hero to Victim": Romantic Tragedy and After -- Modernism and Tragedy -- The Survival of Tragedy -- Conclusion -- Glossary…
"Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview of the genre and the history of traffic theory. Integrating a discussion of texts, conte…
"Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview of the genre and the history of traffic theory. Integrating a discussion of texts, conte…
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A.D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question.
"Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A.D. Nutt…
"Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A.D. Nutt…
[This book] is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience…
