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Tragedy
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Introduction

1. Greeks and Romans: Classical Tragedy

  • Contexts: The Festival of Dionysus at Athens

    Aeschylus, The Oresteia

    Sophocles, Oedipus the King

    Sophocles, Antigone

    Euripides, Medea

    Euripides, Bacchae

    Contexts: Seneca and Roman Tragedy

    Seneca, Phaedra

  • 2. ‘When the bad bleed’ ? Early Modern English Tragedy

  • Contexts: Elizabethan Tragedy

    Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy and Revenge Tragedy

    Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus

    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

    Contexts: Jacobean Tragedy

    William Shakespeare, Othello

    William Shakespeare, King Lear

    William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

    John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

  • 3. Neo-Classicism, Restoration Tragedy and Sentimentality

  • Contexts

    Jean Racine, Phaedra

    John Dryden, All for Love

    Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d

  • 4. ‘From Hero to Victim’: Romantic Tragedy and After

  • Contexts

    Heinrich von Kleist, The Prince of Homburg

    Georg Büchner, Woyzeck

    Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

  • 5. Modernism and Tragedy

  • Contexts

    Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

    Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

    Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding

    Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and her Children

    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

    Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

    Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

  • 6. The Survival of Tragedy

    Contexts

    Edward Bond, Lear

    Howard Barker, Victory

    Tony Kushner, Angels in America

    Caryl Churchill, The Skriker

    Sarah Kane, Blasted.

    Conclusion

    Glossary

    References

    Index

    About the Author

    Sean McEvoy teaches Literature at Varndean Sixth Form College in Brighton and the University of Cambridge, UK.

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