Reader in tragedy : an anthology of classical criticism to contemporary theory /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nevitt, Marcus (Editor), Pollard, Tanya (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019.
Subjects:	Tragedy > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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.'"