Tragedy, the Greeks and Us

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2019-03-28

Type: BOOK

A work honed from a decade's teaching at the New School, where 'Critchley on Tragedy' is one of the most popular courses, Tragedy, the Greeks and Us is a compelling examination of the history of tragedy.

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-03-17

Type: BOOK

This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness.

The Theater of War

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2016-08-23

Type: BOOK

For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society.

The Lessons of Tragedy

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-02-26

Type: BOOK

Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, ...

Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1990

Type: BOOK

(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays.

Giorgi's Greek Tragedy

Publisher: Pauline Hager

Published: 2010-06

Type: BOOK

Conflict abounds in this epic novel of the long, fierce war for independence fought by the Greeks against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, set in 1821 to 1829.

Embattled

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Type: BOOK

From the eighth through the fifth centuries BCE, Homeric epics and Athenian tragedies exposed the tyrannical potential of individuals and groups large and small. These stories identified abuses of power as self-defeating.

Poetics of History

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2019-02-05

Type: BOOK

For Rousseau, the origin has the form of a “scene”—that is, of theater. On this basis, Rousseau’s texts on the theater, especially the Letter to d’Alembert, emerge as an incisive interrogation of Aristotle’s Poetics.

Greek Tragedy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Type: BOOK

Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?

Persuasion in Greek Tragedy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982

Type: BOOK

In this study, R. G. A. Buxton examines the Greek concept of peitho (persuasion) before analysing plays by Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides.