LEADER 04419nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910816061603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786610199648 010 $a9781782687214 010 $a1782687211 010 $a9781280199646 010 $a1280199644 010 $a9780470795675 010 $a0470795670 010 $a9781405165013 010 $a1405165014 010 $a9780470996393 010 $a0470996390 010 $a9781405141420 010 $a1405141425 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342139 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126246 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11148160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126246 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030587 035 $a(PQKB)11464990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC228539 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL228539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10158736 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL19964 035 $a(OCoLC)61166753 035 $a(Perlego)2748972 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342139 100 $a20040730d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to tragedy /$fedited by Rebecca Bushnell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$dc2005 215 $axi, 556 p 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v32 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781405192460 311 08$a1405192461 311 08$a9781405107358 311 08$a1405107359 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- A Companion to Tragedy -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tragic Thought -- Part I Tragedy and the Gods -- 1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual -- 2 Tragedy and Dionysus -- Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis -- 3 Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction -- 4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy -- 5 Nietzsche and Tragedy -- 6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan -- Part III Tragedy and History -- 7 Tragedy and City -- 8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought -- 9 Tragedy and Feminism -- Tragedy in History -- Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity -- 10 Tragedy and Myth -- 11 Tragedy and Epic -- 12 Tragedy in Performance -- 13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions -- 14 Women in Greek Tragedy -- 15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy -- 16 Roman Tragedy -- Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy -- 17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy -- 18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State -- 19 English Revenge Tragedy -- 20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón -- Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy -- 21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France -- 22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine -- 23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy -- 24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner -- 25 French Romantic Tragedy -- Part VII Tragedy and Modernity -- 26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe -- 27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater -- 28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances -- Index. 330 8 $aA Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. * Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity * Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy * Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history * Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v32. 606 $aTragedy$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aTragedy$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.2/512 701 $aBushnell$b Rebecca W.$f1952-$0561226 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816061603321 996 $aA companion to tragedy$92063414 997 $aUNINA