Reader in tragedy : an anthology of classical criticism to contemporary theory / Edited by. Marcus Nevitt and Tanya Pollard.

Contributor(s):

Nevitt, Marcus; Pollard, Tanya

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Methuen / Drama, 2019.Description: vi, 346 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9781474270427 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Tragedy

DDC classification:

23 809.9162 REA

Contents:

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 --

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	809.9162 REA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2749

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 --

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.