
Tragedy
Clifford Leech(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2016
Book
Hardback
102 pages
978-1-138-15706-4 (ISBN)
Description
Professor Leech considers the significance of the term 'Tragedy' as it has been used from classical times to the present day. He gives examples of tragic writing from a wide variety of dramatic literatures and relates theoretical writings on tragedy and the tragedies that have been contemporaneous with them. Free reference is made to critics from Aristotle to these of the present. Special stress is laid on the tragedies of the Greeks, of Renaissance writers and of our immediate contemporaries, notably Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. There is also discussion of tragic writing in the modern novel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-15706-4 (9781138157064)
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Person
Clifford Leech
Content
PREFATORY NOTE 1 Some Definitions and Observations 2 Tragedy in Practice and in Theory 3 The Tragic Hero 4 Cleansing? or Sacrifice? 5 The Sense of Balance 6 Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Suffering 7 The Chorus and the Unities 8 The Sense of Overdoing It SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


