What is a Shakespearean tragedy?

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-22

  Mc Alindon, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521790093.001     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 7.
3. Alistair Fowler, Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), p. 24.
4. Raymond Williams, Modern Tragedy (London: Chatto and Windus, 1966), pp. 15-46.
5. Friedrich Nietzsche, 'The Birth of Tragedy' and 'The Genealogy of Morals', trans. Francis Golffing (New York: Doubleday, 1956), pp. 19, 33-6, 42, 50, 64.
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7. Bernard McElroy, Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies (Princeton University Press, 1973), pp. 1-28.
8. F. L. Lucas, Tragedy in Relation to Aristotle's Poetics (London: Hogarth Press, 1927), pp. 55-6.
9. A. P. Rossiter, Angel with Horns: Fifteen Lectures on Shakespeare (London: Hutchinson, 1961), pp. 265-72.
10. Catherine Belsey, 'Tragedy, Justice and the Subject,' in 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Francis Barker (Essex, 1981), pp. 166-86
11. Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984).
12. Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1989).
13. George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589), ed. G. D.Willcock and A. Walker (Cambridge University Press, 1936), p. 26
14. Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry (1595), ed. Geoffrey Shepherd (London: Nelson, 1965), p. 118.
15. Roland Mushat Frye, Shakespeare: The Art of the Dramatist (London: Allen and Unwin, 1982), p. 116.
16. Rossiter, Angel with Horns, p. 264
17. Robert Kirsch, The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press), 1990.
18. Reuben A. Brower, Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 31.
19. Eugene M. Waith, Ideas of Greatness: Heroic Drama in England (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 106.
20. Bertolt Brecht, The Messingkauf Dialogues, trans. John Willett (London: Methuen, 1965), p. 59.