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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Book Title: Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy
Authors: Keith M. May
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09882-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09884-2Published: 01 January 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09882-8Published: 18 June 1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 199
Topics: Literary History, Literary Theory

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Apollo and Dionysus

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Impious Euripides

Nature and Purity in the Renaissance

Ibsen and Hardy, Nature’s Lost Sons

Zarathustra and the Rebirth of Tragedy

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