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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790461103321

Autore

Faas Ekbert <1938->

Titolo

Tragedy and after : Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe / / Ekbert Faas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston, Ont. : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1986

ISBN

1-283-53109-7

9786613843548

0-7735-8177-4

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)

Disciplina

801/.952

Soggetti

Tragedy - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Birth of Tragedy 25 Aeschylus's Early Tragedies - Euripides : Towards Anti-tragedy -- Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy -- Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background -- From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure -- Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest -- The Post-tragic Vision of Romance -- From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy -- Tragedy and Psychology -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton