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Ideas and forms of tragedy from Aristotle to the middle ages / Henry Ansgar Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar, 1934-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 18.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle.
- Tragedy.
- Literary form--History--To 1500.
- Literary form.
- History.
- Drama, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Drama, Medieval.
- Classical drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Classical drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1. Greek and Roman poetics. (1). Aristotle on the tragic in general. (2). The Roman tradition
- 2. Modes and subjects of Roman tragedy. (1). Ways of performing tragedy. (2). Tragedies read, tragedies lived. (3). Rash generalizations of tragic themes
- 3. Early medieval clues and conjectures. (1). Isidore of Seville. (2). Remigius and Remigians. (3). Non-Remigians, Senecans, Horatians, and later Isidorians. (4). Papias the protolexicographer
- 4. The twelfth-century scene. (1). William of Conches and the commentaries on Boethius. (2). Metaphorical tragedy. (3). Tragic style and new tragedies. (4). Continuing tradition: the lexicographers
- 5. The high Middle Ages: discoveries and oblivions. (1). Aristotle: a lost opportunity. (2). Nicholas Trevet on Boethius and Seneca. (3). Seneca at Padua. (4). Dante and his commentators. (5). Boethius in French
- 6. Final variations. (1). England: Chaucer and the future. (2). Laments in France. (3). Italian Latinists. (4). Theory and practice in Spain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780511470332
- 0511470339
- Publisher Number:
- 99984989272
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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