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245 _aReader in tragedy : an anthology of classical criticism to contemporary theory /
_cEdited by. Marcus Nevitt and Tanya Pollard.
260 _aLondon :
_bMethuen / Drama,
_c2019.
300 _avi, 346 pages ; 25 cm
500 _aGBP 29.99/-
505 _a 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 --
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