The excess of heroism in tragic drama
A critical study of what makes tragedy tragic. Leonard Moss seeks an answer in his readings of three seminal philosophers of tragedy: Plato, Hegel and Nietzsche. He then takes the subject a step further by applying their different approaches to the ethical contradictions operating in tragedy.
Print Book, English, ©2000
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, ©2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 219 pages ; 24 cm
9780813017594, 0813017599
42968097
Hegel's theory
The male model
Women
The sequence of Athenian tragedy
Shakespeare's fatal female
Nietzschean dream imagery in Aeschylus and Seneca
Nietzschean dream imagery in Strindberg and Kafka
Plato's distrust
Milton's single-mindedness
Shakespeare's trickery: piling up nothing