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"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Argument and Approach -- The Tragic -- Repudiations of the Tragic -- The Twentieth Century -- Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe -- The Birth of Tragedy -- Aeschylus's Early Tragedies -- Aeschylus, Hegel, Nietzsche -- Sophocles and Aristotle -- Euripides: Towards Anti-tragedy -- Euripides, Traditionalist and Innovator -- Euripides and the Sophists -- Electra -- Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy -- Heracles -- Orestes -- The Bacchae -- Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background -- An Art That Nature Makes -- Shakespeare's Poetics, Montaigne, and Bacon -- Suspending One's Judgment -- Explorations of the Self -- From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure -- Romeo and Juliet -- Troilus and Cressida -- King Lear -- Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest -- Hamlet's Suicidal Nature, Freud, and Eliot -- The Scourge and Minister of Mankind -- The World Turned Prison-house -- A Nietzschean Reading of Hamlet -- The Post-tragic Vision of Romance -- Death and Rebirth in Shakespeare and Montaigne -- Pericles -- Cymbeline -- From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen -- The Winter's Tale -- The Tempest -- The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy -- The Discovery of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá -- Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics -- Kālidāsa's Influence on Goethe -- Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine -- Tragedy and Psychology -- Oedipus Rex, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Death of a Salesman -- Freud and Aristotle -- Towards a Twentieth-Century Post-tragic Theatre -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Argument and Approach""; ""The Tragic""; ""Repudiations of the Tragic""; ""The Twentieth Century""; ""Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe""; ""The Birth of Tragedy""; ""Aeschylus's Early Tragedies""; ""Aeschylus, Hegel, Nietzsche""; ""Sophocles and Aristotle""; ""Euripides: Towards Anti-tragedy""; ""Euripides, Traditionalist and Innovator""; ""Euripides and the Sophists""; ""Electra""; ""Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy""; ""Heracles""; ""Orestes""; ""The Bacchae""; ""Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background""; ""An Art That Nature Makes""
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""Shakespeare's Poetics, Montaigne, and Bacon""""Suspending One's Judgment""; ""Explorations of the Self""; ""From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure""; ""Romeo and Juliet""; ""Troilus and Cressida""; ""King Lear""; ""Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest""; ""Hamlet's Suicidal Nature, Freud, and Eliot""; ""The Scourge and Minister of Mankind""; ""The World Turned Prison-house""; ""A Nietzschean Reading of Hamlet""; ""The Post-tragic Vision of Romance""; ""Death and Rebirth in Shakespeare and Montaigne""; ""Pericles""; ""Cymbeline""; ""From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen""
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""The Winter's Tale""""The Tempest""; ""The Two Noble Kinsmen""; ""Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy""; ""The Discovery of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá""; ""Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics""; ""Kālidāsa's Influence on Goethe""; ""Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine""; ""Tragedy and Psychology""; ""Oedipus Rex, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Death of a Salesman""; ""Freud and Aristotle""; ""Towards a Twentieth-Century Post-tragic Theatre""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""
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""P""""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773504165
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tragedy and After : Euripides, Shakespeare, and Goethe
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