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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465367003321

Autore

Hammond Paul <1953->

Titolo

The strangeness of tragedy [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612354748

0-19-157148-2

1-282-35474-4

Descrizione fisica

260 pages

Disciplina

809.2512

Soggetti

Tragedy - History and criticism

Tragic, The

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note on Texts and Translations; Abbreviations; Prologue; 1 The Work of Tragedy; 2 Aeschylus, Oresteia; 3 Sophocles, Electra; 4 Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus; 5 Sophocles, Antigone; 6 Seneca, Thyestes; 7 Shakespeare, Macbeth; 8 Shakespeare, Othello; 9 Shakespeare, King Lear; 10 Racine, Phè€dre; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the individual, which is often seen in tragedy's uncertainty about the protagonists' autonomy: do they act, or do the gods act through them? Where are the boundaries of the self, and theboundaries of the human? After an introductory essay exploring the theatrical and linguistic means by which the protago