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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956352403321

Autore

Hammond Paul <1953->

Titolo

The strangeness of tragedy / / Paul Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612354748

9780191571480

0191571482

9781282354746

1282354744

9780191610196

0191610194

9780191702099

0191702099

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 203 p

Disciplina

809.9162

Soggetti

Tragedy - History and criticism

Tragic, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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, Phèdre -- 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 explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine.