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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Repudiations of the Tragic | 13 |
Euripides Shakespeare Goethe | 19 |
The Birth of Tragedy | 25 |
Towards Antitragedy | 42 |
Towards Posttragedy | 54 |
From Tragic to Antitragic Closure | 93 |
Hamlet or the SlaveMoralist Turned Ascetic Priest III | 111 |
The Posttragic Vision of Romance | 129 |
From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen | 141 |
Goethes Transcendence of Tragedy | 155 |
Conclusion | 189 |
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| Title | Tragedy and After: Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe |
| Author | Ekbert Faas |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0773506055, 9780773506053 |
| Length | 223 pages |
| Subjects | › Drama / Ancient & Classical |
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