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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1988), Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990), A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996), and Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003). Klappentext A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. The Companion is based on the premise that the genre of tragedy is inseparable from history, insofar as it was born in the Greek city-state, and its life has been intertwined with the fate of dynasties, revolutions, and crises of social change. At the same time, this historical approach is complemented by consideration of philosophical and religious readings of tragedy. Featuring essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, the volume is structured into two parts: the first set of essays on "tragic thought" considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy, and history; while the second set on "tragedy in history" traces the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity. Together, they demonstrate how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity. This book considers interpretations of tragedy through religion! philosophy and history. It offers an assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 Rebecca Bushnell Tragic Thought Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5 1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7 Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25 Richard Seaford Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39 3 Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41 Kathy Eden 4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy 51 Mark W. Roche 5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68 James I. Porter 6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88 Julia Reinhard Lupton Part III Tragedy and History 107 7 Tragedy and City 109 Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub 8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128 Hugh Grady 9 Tragedy and Feminism 145 Victoria Wohl Tragedy in History Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161 10 Tragedy and Myth 163 Alan H. Sommerstein 11 Tragedy and Epic 181 Ruth Scodel 12 Tragedy in Performance 198 Michael R. Halleran 13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215 Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein 14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234 Sheila Murnaghan 15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251 Ralph M. Rosen 16 Roman Tragedy 269 Alessandro Schiesaro Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287 17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289 Rebecca Bushnell 18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307 Matthew H. Wikander 19 English Revenge Tragedy 328 Michael Neill 20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderön 351 Margaret R. Greer Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371 21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373 Richard E. Goodkin <...
