Tragedy and the Tragic Greek Theatre and Beyond

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ISBN: 9780198152590 | 0198152590
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Copyright: 9/17/1998

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This important book of thirty new essays focuses on the crucial question: what makes tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, tragic? The contributors include many of the world's foremost scholars in the field of Greek drama. The book is accessible to readers with no knowledge of Greek and will be essential reading for anyone interested in tragedy, especially students and specialists in classics, drama, and English literature.

List of Contributors	p. viii
General Introduction	p. 1
Greek Tragedy: Readings	p. 13
Introductory Note	p. 13
Vision, Blindness, and Mask: the Radicalization of the Emotions in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex	p. 17
What Can You Rely on in Oedipus Rex? Response to Calame	p. 38
Antigone as Moral Agent 1	p. 49
Tragedy and the Fragility of Moral Reasoning: Response to Foley	p. 74
Shifts of Mood and Concepts of Time in Euripides' Ion	p. 85
Realism in the Ion: Response to Lee	p. 110
The Unity of the Oresteia	p. 119
The Tragedy of the Oresteia: Response to Van ERP Taalman Kip	p. 139
Catharsis, Audience, and Closure in Greek Tragedy	p. 149
Weeping, Witnessing, and the Tragic Audience: Response to Segal	p. 173
Greek Tragedy: Contexts	p. 183
Comedy and the Tragic 1	p. 188
Comedy and Tragedy--Inevitable Distinctions: Response to Taplin	p. 203
Tragedy and Collective Experience	p. 217
Collectivity and Otherness--The Authority of the Tragic Chorus: Response to Gould	p. 244
Everything to Do with Dionysos? Ritualism, the Dionysiac, and the Tragic: Rainer Friedrich	p. 257
Something to Do with Dionysos--Tragedy and the Dionysiac: Response to Friedrich	p. 284
Is There a Polis in Aristotle's Poetics?	p. 295
Tragic Rhetoric: the Use of Tragedy and the Tragic in the Fourth Century	p. 310
Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic	p. 332
Greek Tragedy and 'Tragedy as a Whole': Perspectives and Definitions	p. 351
Tragic Freedom and Fate in Sophocles' Antigone: Notes on the Role of the 'Ancient Evils' in 'The Tragic' 1	p. 358
Peripeteia and Tragic Dialectic in Euripidean Tragedy	p. 377
Emotion and Meaning in Tragic Performance	p. 397
Tragic Last Words: the Big Speech and the Lament in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama	p. 414
Dramatic Scapegoating: on the Uses and Abuses of Girard and Shakespearean Criticism	p. 426
Patterns of Tragedy in Sophokles and Shakespeare	p. 438
Tragic Language: the Greek Tragedians and Shakespeare	p. 458
Ironies in Serious Drama	p. 497
Tragic and Homeric Ironies: Response to Rosenmeyer	p. 520
Tragedy, Pure and Simple: George Steiner	p. 534
Notes	p. 545
Bibliography of Abbreviated Works	p. 547
Tragic Passages	p. 554
General	p. 559
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