What Was Tragedy?
Theory and the Early Modern Canon
- Author: Hoxby, Blair
What Was Tragedy?
Theory and the Early Modern Canon
- Author: Hoxby, Blair
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What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.
Contents
- The Philosophy of the Tragic and the Poetics of Tragedy
- 1 Our Tragic Culture
- 2 An Early Modern Poetics of Tragedy
- The World We Have Lost
- 3 Simple Pathetic Tragedy
- 4 Operatic Discoveries
- 5 Counter-Reformation Tragedy
- 6 History as Tragedy, Tragedy as Design
- Bibliography
