Tragedy - A Very Short Introduction

Zusatztext 'Oxford's always stimulating Very Short Introductions series.' Informationen zum Autor Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written and lectured on Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, on literary translation and on nineteenth-century English literature. His publications include Gissing in Context (1975), Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Shakespeare and the Victorians (2003), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (1995, co-edited with Jeremy Maule), and editions of novels by Dickens, James and R. L. Stevenson. He is working on a project about witnessing tragedy developed out of his 1999 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, 'Macbeth and the Third Person'. Zusammenfassung What do we mean by 'tragedy' now? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with Sophocles and Shakespeare? Addressing questions about belief, blame, revenge, pain, witnessing and ending, this book demonstrates the enduring significance of attempts to understand terrible suffering.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Poole, Adrian (Professor of English Literature Poole, Poole Adrian
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2005
• EAN: 9780192802354
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280235-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Very Short Introductions; Very Short Introduction
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean