Tragedy and the Return of the Dead /

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"Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers such as Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, John D., 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tragic, The, in literature.
French drama (Tragedy)
French drama.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Theâtre français > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Tragedie française > Histoire et critique.
Tragique dans la litterature.
French drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
French drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Home and hearth
  • Burial and the care of the dead
  • Specters
  • The aesthetics of fear
  • Conclusion: What's in a word?

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