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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Introduction 14
- Argument and Approach 15
- The Tragic 19
- Repudiations of the Tragic 24
- The Twentieth Century 27
- Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe 30
- The Birth of Tragedy 36
- Aeschylus's Early Tragedies 36
- Aeschylus, Hegel, Nietzsche 39
- Sophocles and Aristotle 47
- Euripides: Towards Anti-tragedy 53
- Euripides, Traditionalist and Innovator 53
- Euripides and the Sophists 56
- Electra 58
- Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy 65
- Heracles 65
- Orestes 72
- The Bacchae 79
- Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background 87
- An Art That Nature Makes 90
- Shakespeare's Poetics, Montaigne, and Bacon 92
- Suspending One's Judgment 96
- Explorations of the Self 99
- From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure 104
- Romeo and Juliet 108
- Troilus and Cressida 112
- King Lear 115
- Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest 122
- Hamlet's Suicidal Nature, Freud, and Eliot 123
- The Scourge and Minister of Mankind 127
- The World Turned Prison-house 130
- A Nietzschean Reading of Hamlet 132
- The Post-tragic Vision of Romance 140
- Death and Rebirth in Shakespeare and Montaigne 140
- Pericles 143
- Cymbeline 148
- From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen 152
- The Winter's Tale 153
- The Tempest 157
- The Two Noble Kinsmen 161
- Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy 166
- The Discovery of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá 167
- Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics 169
- Kālidāsa's Influence on Goethe 171
- Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine 178
- Tragedy and Psychology 187
- Oedipus Rex, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Death of a Salesman 188
- Freud and Aristotle 191
- Towards a Twentieth-Century Post-tragic Theatre 195
- Conclusion 200
- NOTES 203
- INDEX 227
- A 227
- B 227
- C 228
- D 229
- E 229
- F 229
- G 229
- H 230
- I 230
- J 230
- K 231
- L 231
- M 231
- N 232
- O 232
- P 232
- Q 232
- R 232
- S 233
- T 234
- U 234
- V 234
- W 234
- X 234
- Y 234
- Z 234