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Title Tragedy in transition / edited by Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone
Published Oxford : Blackwell, [2007]
©2007

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Description xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy.
Contents Introduction: Tragedy in Transition / Sarah Annes Brown -- 1. Trojan Suffering, Tragic Gods, and Transhistorical Metaphysics / Edith Hall -- 2. Hardcore Tragedy / Ewan Fernie -- 3. Tragedy and Disgust / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- 4. Tragedy and the Sign of the Eclipse / Anne C. Henry -- 5. Jonson's Too Roman Plays: From Julius Caesar to Sejanus and Catiline / John Henderson -- 6. Neoclassicisms / Raphael Lyne -- 7. Tragedy and Exile / Jennifer Wallace -- 8. Narratives of Tragic Empathy: Prometheus Bound and Frankenstein / Vanda Zajko -- 9. Tragedy and Childhood / Peter Hollindale -- 10. Parricide versus Filicide: Oedipus and Medea on the Modern Stage / Fiona Macintosh -- 11. "Suffering into Wisdom": The Tragedy of Wilde / Alison Hennegan -- 12. Tarzan of Athens, Dionysus in Africa: Wilson Knight and Wole Soyinka / Neil Rhodes -- 13. Postmodern Tragedy? Returning to John Ford / Mark Houlahan -- 14. Tragedy and the Future / Rowland Wymer
Afterword: Ending Tragedy / Catherine Silverstone
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Tragedy -- History and criticism.
Author Brown, Sarah Annes.
Silverstone, Catherine.
LC no. 2007010739
ISBN 9781405135467 cased
1405135468 cased