Reader in tragedy : an anthology of classical criticism to contemporary theory /
Reader in tragedy : an anthology of classical criticism to contemporary theory /
Edited by. Marcus Nevitt and Tanya Pollard.
- London : Methuen / Drama, 2019.
- vi, 346 pages ; 25 cm
GBP 29.99/-
I. Antiquity and the Middle Ages: 1.1. The republic (c.380-360 BCE) / Plato --
1.2. Poetic (c.350-330 BCE) / Aristotle --
1.3. The art of poetry (c.10 BCE) / Horace --
1.4. On the sublime (c.50-70 CE) / Longinus --
1.5. "On drama" (fourth century CE) / Evanthius --
1.6. "On stage-plays" (397-400 CE) / Augustine. II. The early modern period: 2.1. Discourse or letter on the composition of comedies and tragedies (1555) / Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio --
2.2. The poetics of Aristotle (1570) / Lodovico Castelvetro --
2.3. Plays confuted in five actions (1582) / Stephen Gosson --
2.4. Defense of poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney --
2.5. The apology for actors (1612) / Thomas Heywood --
2.6. Three discourses on dramatic poetry (1660) / Pierre Corneille --
2.7. "Of that sort of dramatic poem which is called tragedy" (1671) / John Milton --
2.8. Reflections on Aristotle's treatise of poesie (1674) / René Rapin --
2.9. "The grounds of criticism in tragedy" (1679) / John Dryden. III. The eighteenth century: 3.1. The spectator (1711-14) / Joseph Addison, Richard Steele --
3.2. "The dedication" and "Prologue" to The London Merchant (1731) / George Lillo --
3.3. Letter XVIII : On tragedy (c.1733) / Voltaire --
3.4. Of tragedy (1757) / David Hume --
3.5. "Sympathy," "Of the effects of tragedy," and "The sublime" (1757) / Edmund Burke --
3.6. Letter to M. D'Alembert on the theatre (1758) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
3.7. "Preface to Shakespeare" (1765) / Samuel Johnson --
3.8. An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare (1769) / Elizabeth Montagu --
3.9. "Introductory discourse" (1798) / Joanna Baillie. IV. The nineteenth century: 4.1. A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel --
4.2. "On the tragedies of Shakespeare considered with reference for their fitness for stage representation" (1811) / Charles Lamb --
4.3. Characters in Shakespeare's plays (1817) / William Hazlitt --
4.4. The world as will and representation (1819) / Arthur Schopenhauer --
4.5. A defence of poetry (1821) / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
4.6. Aesthetics : lectures on fine art (1823-9) / G.F.W. Hegel --
4.7. "The Antigone and its moral" (1856) / George Eliot --
4.8. The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche. V. 1900 to 1968: 5.1. The interpretation of dreams (1900) / Sigmund Freud --
5.2. Shakespearean tragedy (1904) / A.C. Bradley --
5.3. "The tragic theatre" (1910) / William Butler Yeats --
9781474270427 (pbk.)
Tragedy
809.9162 REA
GBP 29.99/-
I. Antiquity and the Middle Ages: 1.1. The republic (c.380-360 BCE) / Plato --
1.2. Poetic (c.350-330 BCE) / Aristotle --
1.3. The art of poetry (c.10 BCE) / Horace --
1.4. On the sublime (c.50-70 CE) / Longinus --
1.5. "On drama" (fourth century CE) / Evanthius --
1.6. "On stage-plays" (397-400 CE) / Augustine. II. The early modern period: 2.1. Discourse or letter on the composition of comedies and tragedies (1555) / Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio --
2.2. The poetics of Aristotle (1570) / Lodovico Castelvetro --
2.3. Plays confuted in five actions (1582) / Stephen Gosson --
2.4. Defense of poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney --
2.5. The apology for actors (1612) / Thomas Heywood --
2.6. Three discourses on dramatic poetry (1660) / Pierre Corneille --
2.7. "Of that sort of dramatic poem which is called tragedy" (1671) / John Milton --
2.8. Reflections on Aristotle's treatise of poesie (1674) / René Rapin --
2.9. "The grounds of criticism in tragedy" (1679) / John Dryden. III. The eighteenth century: 3.1. The spectator (1711-14) / Joseph Addison, Richard Steele --
3.2. "The dedication" and "Prologue" to The London Merchant (1731) / George Lillo --
3.3. Letter XVIII : On tragedy (c.1733) / Voltaire --
3.4. Of tragedy (1757) / David Hume --
3.5. "Sympathy," "Of the effects of tragedy," and "The sublime" (1757) / Edmund Burke --
3.6. Letter to M. D'Alembert on the theatre (1758) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
3.7. "Preface to Shakespeare" (1765) / Samuel Johnson --
3.8. An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare (1769) / Elizabeth Montagu --
3.9. "Introductory discourse" (1798) / Joanna Baillie. IV. The nineteenth century: 4.1. A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel --
4.2. "On the tragedies of Shakespeare considered with reference for their fitness for stage representation" (1811) / Charles Lamb --
4.3. Characters in Shakespeare's plays (1817) / William Hazlitt --
4.4. The world as will and representation (1819) / Arthur Schopenhauer --
4.5. A defence of poetry (1821) / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
4.6. Aesthetics : lectures on fine art (1823-9) / G.F.W. Hegel --
4.7. "The Antigone and its moral" (1856) / George Eliot --
4.8. The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche. V. 1900 to 1968: 5.1. The interpretation of dreams (1900) / Sigmund Freud --
5.2. Shakespearean tragedy (1904) / A.C. Bradley --
5.3. "The tragic theatre" (1910) / William Butler Yeats --
9781474270427 (pbk.)
Tragedy
809.9162 REA