 A Companion to Tragedy
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0735-8
Hardcover
568 pages
May 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture.
* Broad in its scope and ambition.
* Features essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy.
* Considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history.
* Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity.
* Pays particular attention to a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy.
* Demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades.
* Broad in its scope and ambition.
* Features essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy.
* Considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history.
* Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity.
* Pays particular attention to a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy.
* Demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades.
