"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [192]-215
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 801/.952
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773581777 0773504168
- LCCN
- PN1892
- LCCN Item number
- F27 1984eb
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- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- MH
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 223 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00230147 (OCoLC)767670982 (CaOOCEL)436093
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- MH
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Introduction 14
- Argument and Approach 15
- The Tragic 19
- Repudiations of the Tragic 24
- The Twentieth Century 27
- Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe 30
- The Birth of Tragedy 36
- Aeschylus's Early Tragedies 36
- Aeschylus, Hegel, Nietzsche 39
- Sophocles and Aristotle 47
- Euripides: Towards Anti-tragedy 53
- Euripides, Traditionalist and Innovator 53
- Euripides and the Sophists 56
- Electra 58
- Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy 65
- Heracles 65
- Orestes 72
- The Bacchae 79
- Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background 87
- An Art That Nature Makes 90
- Shakespeare's Poetics, Montaigne, and Bacon 92
- Suspending One's Judgment 96
- Explorations of the Self 99
- From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure 104
- Romeo and Juliet 108
- Troilus and Cressida 112
- King Lear 115
- Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest 122
- Hamlet's Suicidal Nature, Freud, and Eliot 123
- The Scourge and Minister of Mankind 127
- The World Turned Prison-house 130
- A Nietzschean Reading of Hamlet 132
- The Post-tragic Vision of Romance 140
- Death and Rebirth in Shakespeare and Montaigne 140
- Pericles 143
- Cymbeline 148
- From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen 152
- The Winter's Tale 153
- The Tempest 157
- The Two Noble Kinsmen 161
- Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy 166
- The Discovery of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá 167
- Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics 169
- Kālidāsa's Influence on Goethe 171
- Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine 178
- Tragedy and Psychology 187
- Oedipus Rex, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Death of a Salesman 188
- Freud and Aristotle 191
- Towards a Twentieth-Century Post-tragic Theatre 195
- Conclusion 200
- NOTES 203
- INDEX 227
- A 227
- B 227
- C 228
- D 229
- E 229
- F 229
- G 229
- H 230
- I 230
- J 230
- K 231
- L 231
- M 231
- N 232
- O 232
- P 232
- Q 232
- R 232
- S 233
- T 234
- U 234
- V 234
- W 234
- X 234
- Y 234
- Z 234
