What was tragedy? : theory and the early modern canon /

Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a time...

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Main Author:	Hoxby, Blair, 1966-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Tragedy > History and criticism. Tragédie > Histoire et critique. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Tragedy Drama. Music, Dance, Drama & Film. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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