TRAGEDY AND THE TRAGIC by M. S. Silk (Editor) ( 9780198152590 )

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TRAGEDY AND THE TRAGIC
GREEK THEATRE AND BEYOND

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0198152590

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9780198152590

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1998

Pages:

576

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This important book of twenty-nine new essays focuses on the definition of tragedy and what has made it such a uniquely powerful and affecting form of art from the age of the Greeks to the present day. In addition to re-examining Greek tragedy in its cultural and political context, the essays relates the tragedy of the Greeks to the serious drama and theoretical perspectives of the modern world, with Shakespeare at the forefront of several essays.

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The Greeks invented tragedy; and from the age of the Greeks to the present day, tragedy has been seen to be a uniquely powerful and affecting form of art. But what makes it what it is? This challenging volume of twenty-nine new essays has an exceptional range - from Aeschylus to Sean O'Casey, from Aristotle to Rene Girard - but also a consistent focus on the ultimate question: how best to define or understand Greek tragedy in particular and tragedy in general. The contributors, who include many of the world's foremost names in the field of Greek drama, debate the question. They reassess particular Greek plays, from Oresteia to Antigone and Oedipus to Ion; they re-examine Greek tragedy in its cultural and political context; and they relate the tragedy of the Greeks to the serious drama and theoretical perspectives of the modern world, with Shakespeare at the forefront of several essays.

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Clarendon Press

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