The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy

Author: Jennifer Wallace
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521671493

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Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. Get The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy literature books for free.
From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays, playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means to seek explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we continually encounter in the media, to denote an event which is simply devastating in its emotional power. This introduction explores the relationship between tragic experience and tragic representation. After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett - it also looks at the contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject, before Check The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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