Strangeness of Tragedy

Zusatztext persuasive and assured Informationen zum Autor Paul Hammond was educated at Peter Symonds' School, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Prize Fellow from 1978 to 1982. He subsequently taught at the University of Leeds, where he has been Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. Klappentext This book explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine. Zusammenfassung This book explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on Texts and Translations Abbreviations Prologue 1: The Work of Tragedy 2: Aeschylus, Oresteia 3: Sophocles, Electra 4: Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus 5: Sophocles, Antigone 6: Seneca, Thyestes 7: Shakespeare, Macbeth 8: Shakespeare, Othello 9: Shakespeare, King Lear 10: Racine, Phèdre Epilogue Index

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hammond, Paul (Professor of Seventeenth-Century En Hammond
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2009
• EAN: 9780199572601
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957260-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean