{"product_id":"tragedy-9781032013855","title":"Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyth and tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy, myth and ritual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy and pleasure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAristotle’s \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFate, fortune and providence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadical tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy after the Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The philosophy of tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sublime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchiller on tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHegel on tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradley on Hegel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNietzsche on tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond Nietzsche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. From action to character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreud, Oedipus and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy and the linguistic turn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragedy and violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Rethinking the tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDismantling tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrecht against Aristotle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaint Joan of the Stockyards\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMother Courage\u003c\/i\u003e and Gallileo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-human\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnti-humanism and post-humanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Beckett: \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Kane: \u003ci\u003ePhaedra’s Love \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s \u003ci\u003eLeopoldstadt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018789224791,"sku":"9781032013855","price":86.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032013855.jpg?v=1750778161","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tragedy-9781032013855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}