Tragedy and After : Euripides, Shakespeare, and Goethe

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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 ClosureRomeo 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 GoetheFaust'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