Companion to Tragedy

Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ Theban Plays (1988), Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990), A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996), and Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003).

"The Blackwell Companions series is intended to orientate the beginning student in new fields of study while providing the graduate and experienced undergraduate with current and new directions. The present volume serves these objectives well.... Bushnell’s edition gives the reader a sense of the scope and fertility of the most current scholarship on the genre." (Journal of Hellenic Studies, February 2009) “These essays, as would be expected from their authors, manifest a high standard of scholarship and familiarity with current understandings.... The volume has a place on the desk of every reference librarian at the college and university level." Bryn Mawr Classical Review “The arrangement of the contents and an index that provides coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting of specific topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety the book provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currently studied. Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful to postgraduates needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship of this area, this title is a useful addition to the academic library.” Reference Reviews

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction 1Rebecca BushnellTragic ThoughtPart I Tragedy and the Gods 51 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25Richard SeafordPart II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 393 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41Kathy Eden4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51Mark W. Roche5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68James I. Porter6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88Julia Reinhard LuptonPart III Tragedy and History 1077 Tragedy and City 109Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128Hugh Grady9 Tragedy and Feminism 145Victoria WohlTragedy in HistoryPart IV Tragedy in Antiquity 16110 Tragedy and Myth 163Alan H. Sommerstein11 Tragedy and Epic 181Ruth Scodel12 Tragedy in Performance 198Michael R. Halleran13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234Sheila Murnaghan15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251Ralph M. Rosen16 Roman Tragedy 269Alessandro SchiesaroPart V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 28717 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289Rebecca Bushnell18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307Matthew H. Wikander19 English Revenge Tragedy 328Michael Neill20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n 351Margaret R. GreerPart VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 37121 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373Richard E. Goodkin22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393Mitchell Greenberg23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy 411Jeffrey N. Cox24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner 435Simon Richter25 French Romantic Tragedy 452Barbara T. CooperPart VII Tragedy and Modernity 46926 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471Gail Finney27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488Brenda Murphy28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances 505Timothy J. ReissIndex 537