Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Tragic, Tragedy and the Idea of the Limit
- Chapter 1 Hubris and Guilt: Gengangere (Ghosts)
- Chapter 2 Eve Becomes Mary: L'annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary)
- Chapter 3 The School of Hatred: Mourning Becomes Electra
- Chapter 4 The Destiny of Man Is Man: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children)
- Chapter 5 The Tragic and the Absurd: Caligula
- Chapter 6 Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude: Endgame
- Chapter 7 The Arrogance of Reason and the ‘Disappearance of the Fireflies’: Pilade (Pylades)
- Chapter 8 The Apocalypse of a Civilization: From Akropolis to Apocalypsis cum figuris
- A Provisional Epilogue: Between the Experience and the Representation of the Tragic: Towards a Performative Theatre
- Appendix: Chronology of Productions
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Tragic, Tragedy and the Idea of the Limit
- Chapter 1 Hubris and Guilt: Gengangere (Ghosts)
- Chapter 2 Eve Becomes Mary: L'annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary)
- Chapter 3 The School of Hatred: Mourning Becomes Electra
- Chapter 4 The Destiny of Man Is Man: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children)
- Chapter 5 The Tragic and the Absurd: Caligula
- Chapter 6 Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude: Endgame
- Chapter 7 The Arrogance of Reason and the ‘Disappearance of the Fireflies’: Pilade (Pylades)
- Chapter 8 The Apocalypse of a Civilization: From Akropolis to Apocalypsis cum figuris
- A Provisional Epilogue: Between the Experience and the Representation of the Tragic: Towards a Performative Theatre
- Appendix: Chronology of Productions
- Notes
- Index
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- Modern European TragedyExploring Crucial Plays, pp. i - ivPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2014