A Companion to Tragedy

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Tragedy

Editor(s): Rebecca Bushnell

Published Online: 26 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405107358

Online ISBN: 9780470996393

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996393

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A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture.

  • Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity
  • Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy
  • Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history
  • Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xii)

    1. A Companion to Tragedy: Introduction (pages 1–4)

      Rebecca Bushnell

  3. Part I: Tragedy and the Gods

    1. Chapter 1

      Greek Tragedy and Ritual (pages 7–24)

      Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

    2. Chapter 2

      Tragedy and Dionysus (pages 25–38)

      Richard Seaford

  4. Part II: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis

    1. Chapter 3

      Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction (pages 41–49)

      Kathy Eden

    2. Chapter 4

      The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy (pages 51–67)

      Mark W. Roche

    3. Chapter 5

      Nietzsche and Tragedy (pages 68–87)

      James I. Porter

    4. Chapter 6

      Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan (pages 88–105)

      Julia Reinhard Lupton

  5. Part III: Tragedy and History

    1. Chapter 7

      Tragedy and City (pages 109–127)

      Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub

    2. Chapter 8

      Tragedy and Materialist Thought (pages 128–144)

      Hugh Grady

    3. Chapter 9

      Tragedy and Feminism (pages 145–160)

      Victoria Wohl

  6. Part IV: Tragedy in Antiquity

    1. Chapter 10

      Tragedy and Myth (pages 163–180)

      Alan H. Sommerstein

    2. Chapter 11

      Tragedy and Epic (pages 181–197)

      Ruth Scodel

    3. Chapter 12

      Tragedy in Performance (pages 198–213)

      Michael R. Halleran

    4. Chapter 13

      The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions (pages 215–233)

      Claude Calame and Dan Edelstein

    5. Chapter 14

      Women in Greek Tragedy (pages 234–250)

      Sheila Murnaghan

    6. Chapter 15

      Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy (pages 251–268)

      Ralph M. Rosen

    7. Chapter 16

      Roman Tragedy (pages 269–286)

      Alessandro Schiesaro

  7. Part V: Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy

    1. Chapter 17

      The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy (pages 289–306)

      Rebecca Bushnell

    2. Chapter 18

      Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State (pages 307–327)

      Matthew H. Wikander

    3. Chapter 19

      English Revenge Tragedy (pages 328–350)

      Michael Neill

    4. Chapter 20

      Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón (pages 351–370)

      Margaret R. Greer

  8. Part VI: Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy

    1. Chapter 21

      Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France (pages 373–391)

      Richard E Goodkin

    2. Chapter 22

      French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine (pages 393–410)

      Mitchell Greenberg

    3. Chapter 23

      Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy (pages 411–434)

      Jeffrey N. Cox

    4. Chapter 24

      German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner (pages 435–451)

      Simon Richter

    5. Chapter 25

      French Romantic Tragedy (pages 452–468)

      Barbara T. Cooper

  9. Part VII: Tragedy and Modernity

    1. Chapter 26

      Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe (pages 471–487)

      Gail Finney

    2. Chapter 27

      Tragedy in the Modern American Theater (pages 488–504)

      Brenda Murphy

    3. Chapter 28

      Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances (pages 505–536)

      Timothy J. Reiss

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      Index (pages 537–556)

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