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Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy

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  • © 1990

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  1. Keith M. May
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Apollo and Dionysus

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 1-26

  3. Aeschylus

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 27-47

  4. Sophocles

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 48-70

  5. Impious Euripides

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 71-92

  6. Nature and Purity in the Renaissance

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 93-126

  7. Ibsen and Hardy, Nature’s Lost Sons

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 127-159

  8. Zarathustra and the Rebirth of Tragedy

    • Keith M. May
    Pages 160-183

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 184-199
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Keith May discusses the development, and frequent misunderstanding of, tragedy - explaining the insights of Nietzsche in "The Birth of Tragedy". He looks at its history from the early Greek playwrights, to Renaissance drama, up to more modern writers of tragedy such as Ibsen and Hardy.

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