19879

,

edited by Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone

Blackwell Pub.,

xii, 315 p. , ill. , 24 cm.

Trojan suffering, tragic gods, and transhistorical metaphysics / Edith Hall -- Hardcore tragedy / Ewan Fernie -- Tragedy and disgust / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- Tragedy and the sign of the eclipse / Anne C. Henry -- Johnsonʹs too Roman plays: from Julius Caesar to Sejanus and Caitline / John Henderson -- Neoclassicisms / Raphael Lyne -- Tragedy and exile / Jennifer Wallace -- Narratives of tragic empathy: Prometheus bound and Frankenstein / Vanda Zajko -- Tragedy and childhood / Peter Hollindale -- Parricide versus filicide: Oedipus and Medea on the modern stage / Fiona Macintosh -- "Suffering into wisdom": the tragedy of Wilde / Alison Hennegan -- Tarzan of Athens, Dionysus in Africa: Wilson Knight and Wole Soyinka / Neil Rhodes -- Postmodern tragedy? Returning to John Ford / Mark Houlahan -- Tragedy and the future / Rowland Wymer.

AU Brown, Sarah Annes. , AU Silverstone, Catherine.

PN

1892

.T66

2007

m

1390/02/25

1405135468 (hbk. : alk. paper) ,

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and index.

2007