Tragedy

List of contents

General Editor’s Preface; Prefatory Note; 1. Some Definitions and Observations 2. Tragedy in Practice and in Theory 3. The Tragic Hero 4. Cleansing? Or Sacrifice? 5. The Sense of Balance 6. Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Suffering 7. The Chorus and the Unities 8. The Sense of Overdoing It; Select Bibliography; Index

About the author

Clifford Leech

Summary

First published in 1969, this work examines the genre of Tragedy from its origins in ancient Greece.

Product details

• Authors: Clifford Leech, Leech Clifford
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138241589
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24158-9
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: The Critical Idiom Reissued; The Critical Idiom Reissued
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, REFERENCE / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The arts: general topics