A Companion to Tragedy

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1
Rebecca Bushnell

Tragic Thought

Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5

1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25
Richard Seaford

Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39

3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41
Kathy Eden

4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51
Mark W. Roche

5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68
James I. Porter

6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88
Julia Reinhard Lupton

Part III Tragedy and History 107

7 Tragedy and City 109
Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub

8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128
Hugh Grady

9 Tragedy and Feminism 145
Victoria Wohl

Tragedy in History

Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161

10 Tragedy and Myth 163
Alan H. Sommerstein

11 Tragedy and Epic 181
Ruth Scodel

12 Tragedy in Performance 198
Michael R. Halleran

13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215
Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein

14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234
Sheila Murnaghan

15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251
Ralph M. Rosen

16 Roman Tragedy 269
Alessandro Schiesaro

Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287

17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289
Rebecca Bushnell

18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307
Matthew H. Wikander

19 English Revenge Tragedy 328
Michael Neill

20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n 351
Margaret R. Greer

Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371

21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373
Richard E. Goodkin

22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393
Mitchell Greenberg

23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy 411
Jeffrey N. Cox

24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner 435
Simon Richter

25 French Romantic Tragedy 452
Barbara T. Cooper

Part VII Tragedy and Modernity 469

26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471
Gail Finney

27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488
Brenda Murphy

28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances 505
Timothy J. Reiss

Index 537