A companion to tragedy

A Companion to Tragedy......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Tragic Thought......Page 15
1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual......Page 19
2 Tragedy and Dionysus......Page 37
3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction......Page 53
4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy......Page 63
5 Nietzsche and Tragedy......Page 80
6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan......Page 100
7 Tragedy and City......Page 121
8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought......Page 140
9 Tragedy and Feminism......Page 157
10 Tragedy and Myth......Page 175
11 Tragedy and Epic......Page 193
12 Tragedy in Performance......Page 210
13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions......Page 227
14 Women in Greek Tragedy......Page 246
15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy......Page 263
16 Roman Tragedy......Page 281
17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots......Page 301
18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State......Page 319
19 English Revenge Tragedy......Page 340
20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n......Page 363
21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France......Page 385
22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine......Page 405
23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors:......Page 423
24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist,......Page 447
25 French Romantic Tragedy......Page 464
26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe......Page 483
27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater......Page 500
28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and......Page 517
Index......Page 549