Nietzsche on Tragedy

M. S. Silk is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King's College London. His research interests include tragedy and comedy in theory and practice, Greek poetry and drama, and both ancient and modern literary theory. J. P. Stern (1920-1991) was Professor of German at University College London from 1972 to 1986, and was a prolific scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature.

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• Preface to this edition Lesley Chamberlain; Note; 1. Germany and Greece; 2. Biographical background I: Nietzsche and his early interests; 3. Biographical background II: the genesis of The Birth of Tragedy; 4. The argument of The Birth of Tragedy; 5. The aftermath; 6. Nietzsche's account of Greece; 7. Mode and originality; 8. Tragedy, music and aesthetics; 9. Nietzsche and earlier German theories of tragedy; 10. Style and philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.