{"product_id":"a-companion-to-tragedy-9781405107358","title":"A Companion to Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity. This book considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history. It offers an assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Blackwell Companions series is intended to orientate the beginning student in new fields of study while providing the graduate and experienced undergraduate with current and new directions. The present volume serves these objectives well.... Bushnell’s edition gives the reader a sense of the scope and fertility of the most current scholarship on the genre.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Hellenic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2009)  \u003cp\u003e“These essays, as would be expected from their authors, manifest a high standard of scholarship and familiarity with current understandings.... The volume has a place on the desk of every reference librarian at the college and university level.\" \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The arrangement of the contents and an index that provides coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting of specific topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety the book provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currently studied. Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful to postgraduates needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship of this area, this title is a useful addition to the academic library.” \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Bushnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTragic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Tragedy and the Gods 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristiane Sourvinou-Inwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Seaford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathy Eden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark W. Roche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames I. Porter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Reinhard Lupton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Tragedy and History 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Tragedy and City 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugh Grady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Tragedy and Feminism 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Wohl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTragedy in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Tragedy and Myth 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan H. Sommerstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Tragedy and Epic 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth Scodel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Tragedy in Performance 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael R. Halleran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheila Murnaghan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph M. Rosen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Roman Tragedy 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlessandro Schiesaro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Bushnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew H. Wikander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 English Revenge Tragedy 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Neill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n 351\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret R. Greer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard E. Goodkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille\/Racine 393\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitchell Greenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey N. Cox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner 435\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Richter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 French Romantic Tragedy 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara T. 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