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Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca - Routledge Revivals Felicity Rosslyn 1st edition
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Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca - Routledge Revivals
Felicity Rosslyn
This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the recurrent concerns of tragedy, and proposes to uncover the archetypal tragic plot that emerges at key points of historical transition. It traces this plot through fascinatingly diverse formations on Athens, Renaissance England and the modern world, and offers detailed analysis of over twenty plays. The needs of the first-time reader are not forgotten, while challenging new light is thrown on each period. There is substantial discussion of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Lorca and Miller, along with briefer consideration of the Senecan tradition, Yeats, Synge, O?Neill and T. S. Eliot. Felicity Rosslyn asks why tragic plays get written when they do, and why they so often dramatise the struggle to break the ties of blood for the bonds of law.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 22, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138727977 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 240 × 161 × 23 mm · 516 g |
| Language | English |
