The strangeness of tragedy / Paul Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Paul, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tragedy--History and criticism.

Tragedy.

Tragic, The.

Physical Description:

x, 203 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

Text in English with French, Greek and Latin abstracts.

Summary:

This book explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

A Note on Texts and Translations

Abbreviations

Prologue

1 The Work of Tragedy

2 Aeschylus, Oresteia

3 Sophocles, Electra

4 Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus

5 Sophocles, Antigone

6 Seneca, Thyestes

7 Shakespeare, Macbeth

8 Shakespeare, Othello

9 Shakespeare, King Lear

10 Racine, Phèdre

Epilogue

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612354748

9780191571480

0191571482

9781282354746

1282354744

9780191610196

0191610194

9780191702099

0191702099

OCLC:

500808901