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|a General Introduction -- Chapter One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages-- 1.1. Plato, The Republic -- 1.2. Aristotle, On The Art Of Poetry -- 1.3. Horace, The Art of Poetry -- 1.4. Longinus, On the Sublime -- 1.5. Evanthius, "On Drama" -- 1.6. Augustine, "On Stage-plays" -- Chapter Two: The Early Modern Period -- 2.1. Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Discourse or Letter on the Composition of Comedies and Tragedies -- 2.2. Lodovico Castelvetro, The Poetics of Aristotle -- 2.3. Stephen Gosson, Plays Confuted in Five Actions -- 2.4. Philip Sidney, Defense of Poetry -- 2.5. Thomas Heywood, The Apology for Actors -- 2.6. Pierre Corneille, from Three Discourses on Dramatic Poetry -- 2.7. John Milton, "Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which is Called Tragedy" -- 2.8. Rene Rapin, Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie -- 2.9. John Dryden, "The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy" -- Chapter Three: The Eighteenth Century -- 3.1. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator -- 3.2. George Lillo, "The Dedication" and "Prologue" to The London Merchant -- 3.3. Voltaire, "Letter XVIII. On Tragedy" -- 3.4 David Hume, "Of Tragedy" -- 3.5. Edmund Burke, "Sympathy," "Of the Effects of Tragedy" and "The Sublime" -- 3.6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Letter to M. D'Alembert On the Theatre -- 3.7. Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" -- 3.8. Elizabeth Montagu, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare -- 3.9. Joanna Baillie, "Introductory Discourse" -- Chapter Four: The Nineteenth Century -- 4.1. August Wilhelm Schlegel, A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature -- 4.2. Charles Lamb, "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference for Their Fitness for Stage Representation" -- 4.3. William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays -- 4.4.Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation -- 4.5 Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry -- 4.6. G.W.F. Hegel, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art -- 4.7. George Eliot, "The Antigone and its Moral" -- 4.8. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy -- Chapter Five: 1900 to 1968 -- 5.1. Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams -- 5.2. A.C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy -- 5.3. William Butler Yeats, "The Tragic Theatre" -- 5.4. Virginia Woolf, "On Not Knowing Greek" -- 5.5. Bertolt Brecht, "A Short Organum for the Theatre" -- 5.6. Robert Warshow, "The Gangster as Tragic Hero" -- 5.7. George Steiner, Death of Tragedy -- 5.8. Athol Fugard, "On A View from the Bridge" -- 5.9. Raymond Williams, "Modern Tragedy" -- Chapter Six: Post-1968 -- 6.1. Rene Girard, "The Sacrificial Crisis" -- 6.2. Augusto Boal, "The Theatre of the Oppressed" -- 6.3. Joseph Meeker, "Literary Tragedy and Ecological Catastrophe" -- 6.4. Catherine Belsey, The Subject of Tragedy -- 6.5. Nicole Loraux, The Rope and the Sword -- 6.6. Biodun Jeyifo, "Tragedy, History and Ideology" -- 6.7. Helene Cixous, "Enter the Theatre (in between)" -- 6.8. Judith Butler, "Antigone's Claim" -- 6.9. David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity -- 6.10. Martha Nussbaum, "The `Morality of Pity.'"
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