Principles of Tragedy

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings. Originally published in 1968, Dr Brereton seeks to establish the basis of a definition which will hold good on various planes and over a wide range of dramatic and other literature.

Autorentext

Geoffrey Brereton

Inhalt

Foreword, Part I: Tragedy in Theory, 1. The Notion of Tragedy, 2. The Legacy of Aristotle, 3. Tragedy and Religion, 4. The Tragic Sense of Life, Part II: Tragedy in Practice, 5. Some Classic Tragedies: Oedipus, Hamlet, Macbeth, Phèdre, 6. Some Constants of Dramatic Tragedy, 7. An Anti-Tragedy: Candide, Part III: The Duality Conflict, 8. Two Worlds or One? Neoplatonism, Pascal, 9. Imagination Enthroned: Blake and Romanticism, 10. Imagination Dethroned: Ibsen, Chekhov, Part IV: Twentieth-Century Positions, 11. Claudel: Partage de Midi, 12. Beckett: Waiting for Godot, 13. Consequences, Index