Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
Rebecca Bushnell
Tragic Thought
Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5
1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25
Richard Seaford
Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39
3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41
Kathy Eden
4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51
Mark W. Roche
5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68
James I. Porter
6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Part III Tragedy and History 107
7 Tragedy and City 109
Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub
8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128
Hugh Grady
9 Tragedy and Feminism 145
Victoria Wohl
Tragedy in History
Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161
10 Tragedy and Myth 163
Alan H. Sommerstein
11 Tragedy and Epic 181
Ruth Scodel
12 Tragedy in Performance 198
Michael R. Halleran
13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions
215
Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein
14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234
Sheila Murnaghan
15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251
Ralph M. Rosen
16 Roman Tragedy 269
Alessandro Schiesaro
Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287
17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of
English Renaissance Tragedy 289
Rebecca Bushnell
18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State
307
Matthew H. Wikander
19 English Revenge Tragedy 328
Michael Neill
20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n
351
Margaret R. Greer
Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371
21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France
373
Richard E. Goodkin
22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393
Mitchell Greenberg
23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors:
Remaking British Tragedy 411
Jeffrey N. Cox
24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist,
and Büchner 435
Simon Richter
25 French Romantic Tragedy 452
Barbara T. Cooper
Part VII Tragedy and Modernity 469
26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471
Gail Finney
27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488
Brenda Murphy
28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean
Instances 505
Timothy J. Reiss
Index 537
Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ Theban Plays (1988), Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990), A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996), and Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003).
"The Blackwell Companions series is intended to orientate the
beginning student in new fields of study while providing the
graduate and experienced undergraduate with current and new
directions. The present volume serves these objectives well....
Bushnell’s edition gives the reader a sense of the scope and
fertility of the most current scholarship on the genre." (Journal
of Hellenic Studies, February 2009) “These essays, as would be
expected from their authors, manifest a high standard of
scholarship and familiarity with current understandings.... The
volume has a place on the desk of every reference librarian at the
college and university level." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
“The arrangement of the contents and an index that provides
coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting of specific
topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety the book
provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currently studied.
Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful to postgraduates
needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship of this area,
this title is a useful addition to the academic library.” Reference
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