 | Tragic Rhetoric (Hermeneutic Commentaries, Vol 1) ...
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 | Tragedy, myth, and mystery ...
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 | The Tragic Plane Publication Date: October 24, 1985| ISBN-10: 0198128436 | ISBN-13: 978-0198128434| Edition: First Edition What constitutes tragedy?This study examines some of the world's greatest tragic dramas and tries to discover what elements produce a tragic effect.Mason here contends that the effect cannot be properly described in the terms used by philosophers, psychologists, or theologians: tragedy occurs on its own plane on which the characters in the plays are seen at once as agents and pasive sufferers in an action where the human and the divine come together in a unique way to produce the tra...
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 | Tragedy and Fear: Why Modern Tragic Drama Fails Publication Date: July 20, 1972This study of the relationship between the world-view in modern serious playwriting and the effectiveness of modern attempts at tragic drama is also an examination of the perennial problem of tragic spirit: is tragedy optimistic or pessimistic? This provocative and stimulating book is the first detailed analysis of whether tragedy hints at hope or acts out dread.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These ed...
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 | The use of myths to create suspense in extant Greek tragedy, Publication Date: 1966This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuab...
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 | Unnatural Scene: Study in Shakespearian Tragedy (University Paperbacks) ...
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 | Tragedy and Social Evolution ...
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 | Tragic Patterns in Jacobean and Caroline Drama ...
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 | Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition Publication Date: October 2, 1997| ISBN-10: 0415124956 | ISBN-13: 978-0415124959| Edition: 1 Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus on Seneca's in...
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 | Tragedy and Innocence CB ...
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 | Tragedy Publication Date: April 21, 1998This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater. The author of magisterial studies of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, and of symbolism in the theater from the nineteenth century to our times, Maurice Valency has written for the stage and for television, and he translated, adapted and collaborated in producing two great Broadway successes–Giraudoux's the Mad Woman of Chaillot and Durrenmatt's The Visit. ...
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 | Tragic Alphabet: Shakespeare's Drama of Language ...
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 | The tragic drama of the Greeks Publication Date: 1896This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 | Tragedy and Citizenship: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel Publication Date: November 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0791476294 | ISBN-13: 978-0791476291A study of attitudes toward tragedy in both democratic and nondemocratic political theory. ...
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 | Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama: Redefinitions by Miller, O'Neill, and Anderson ...
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 | The Tragic Drama of Corneille and Racine: An Old Parallel Revisited ...
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 | Unzeitgemaesses Denken bei Sophokles (Hermes - Einzelschriften) (German Edition) Publication Date: December 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 3515079637 | ISBN-13: 978-3515079631Die sieben erhaltenen Dramen des Tragikers Sophokles entstanden in der zweiten Halfte des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Athen war damals von der Dynamik eines umfassenden geistigen Wandels gepragt. Die radikale Demokratie durchdrang alle Lebensbereiche und wurde vielfach als Bedrohung uberkommener Werte, insbesondere im Bereich der Familie empfunden. In der Arbeit wird versucht zu zeigen, wie Sophokles die grossen Gestalten seiner Tragodien (Aias, Herakles, Antigone, Elektra, Odipus und Philoktet) zu Vertretern ei...
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 | Tragedy and the theory of drama (Waynebook) ...
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 | Tragic Thought and the Grammar of Tragic Myth ...
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 | The Tragedie of Macbeth: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition Publication Date: September 12, 2012| ISBN-10: 0786464798 | ISBN-13: 978-0786464791| Edition: Annotated As Shakespeare's works are most accessible when viewed as working theatrical playscripts, "The Tragedie of Macbeth: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition" preserves the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of the First Folio of 1623 while at the same time providing the most comprehensive, revelatory, and plainspoken annotation to date. Based on the principle that Shakespeare's plays were written as popular (and not entirely decent) entertainments aimed at an adult (and n...
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