Tragic Plots

’Tragic Plots is packed with insight, and has not a dull paragraph in it (the Shakespeare analyses are especially brilliant). It has emerged, the author says, out of twenty years of teaching tragedy. Lucky Felicity Rosslyn’s students.’ TLS ’Tragic Plots constantly throws up and ponders questions of inexhaustible interest. It is also a first-rate piece of jargon-free literary criticism.’ TLS '...this book is a rare achievement. Tragic Plots is accessible to beginners but challenging to specialists. It demonstrates and affirms the vitality, centrality, and continuing life of tragedy as a recurring dramatic form.' Translation and Literature 'Tragic Plots would stand out in any year... it is a critical masterpiece.' English Studies

• Contents: Introduction; Part One: Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Part Two: Renaissance Tragedy; Revenge and the Machiavel; Shakespeare; Part Three: Modern Tragedy: Ibsen and Strindberg; Lorca; Part Four: Conclusion: Tragedy and the Historical Moment; Bibliography; Index.