Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to LorcaRoutledge, 6 feb. 2018 - 256 sidor This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the recurrent concerns of tragedy, and proposes to uncover the archetypal tragic plot that emerges at key points of historical transition. It traces this plot through fascinatingly diverse formations on Athens, Renaissance England and the modern world, and offers detailed analysis of over twenty plays. The needs of the first-time reader are not forgotten, while challenging new light is thrown on each period. There is substantial discussion of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Lorca and Miller, along with briefer consideration of the Senecan tradition, Yeats, Synge, O’Neill and T.S. Eliot. Felicity Rosslyn asks why tragic plays get written when they do, and why they so often dramatise the struggle to break the ties of blood for the bonds of law. |
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... kind of critical sympathy authors dream of. My greatest debt as a critic is owed to the late H.A. Mason, who taught me how to think about Greek drama and Shakespeare in the same language. He also helped me understand how differently ...
... kind of critical sympathy authors dream of. My greatest debt as a critic is owed to the late H.A. Mason, who taught me how to think about Greek drama and Shakespeare in the same language. He also helped me understand how differently ...
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... kind of play it is most strikingly true of tragedy . The playwright who offers to keep us sitting still , contributing our full attention to his potentially harrowing theatrical experience , must feel that he knows something we all , in ...
... kind of play it is most strikingly true of tragedy . The playwright who offers to keep us sitting still , contributing our full attention to his potentially harrowing theatrical experience , must feel that he knows something we all , in ...
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... kind of security inherent in the experience . This is how bad it gets ; this is what we never knew ' , leads to the thought , ' so now we do know ' . One of the things that comes out of real tragedy is an odd sense of comfort , which ...
... kind of security inherent in the experience . This is how bad it gets ; this is what we never knew ' , leads to the thought , ' so now we do know ' . One of the things that comes out of real tragedy is an odd sense of comfort , which ...
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... species . It is true that all the plays under discussion were written by men and may therefore represent a kind of special pleading ; but the correlation between these plots and the findings of developmental psychology.
... species . It is true that all the plays under discussion were written by men and may therefore represent a kind of special pleading ; but the correlation between these plots and the findings of developmental psychology.
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... kind , which invites each citizen to renounce time - honoured patterns of behaviour and belief in favour of a dangerously new kind of self - definition . Excitement is one face of this opportunity and guilt is the other ; because the ...
... kind , which invites each citizen to renounce time - honoured patterns of behaviour and belief in favour of a dangerously new kind of self - definition . Excitement is one face of this opportunity and guilt is the other ; because the ...
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Euripides | |
Revenge and the Machiavel | |
Shakespeare | |
Ibsen and Strindberg | |
Lorca | |
Tragedy and the Historical Moment | |
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Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca Felicity Rosslyn Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
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