Reader in Tragedy

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Texts

General Introduction

Chapter One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Introduction
1.1. Plato, The Republic
1.2. Aristotle, On The Art Of Poetry
1.3. Horace, The Art of Poetry
1.4. Longinus, On the Sublime
1.5. Evanthius, âOn Dramaâ
1.6. Augustine, âOn Stage-playsâ

Chapter Two: The Early Modern Period
Introduction
2.1. Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Discourse or Letter on the Composition of Comedies and Tragedies
2.2. Lodovico Castelvetro, The Poetics of Aristotle
2.3. Stephen Gosson, Plays Confuted in Five Actions
2.4. Philip Sidney, Defense of Poetry
2.5. Thomas Heywood, The Apology for Actors
2.6. Pierre Corneille, from Three Discourses on Dramatic Poetry
2.7. John Milton, âOf That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which is Called Tragedyâ
2.8. Ren© Rapin, Reflections on Aristotleâs Treatise of Poesie
2.9. John Dryden, âThe Grounds of Criticism in Tragedyâ

Chapter Three: The Eighteenth Century
Introduction
3.1. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator
3.2. George Lillo, âThe Dedicationâ and âPrologueâ to The London Merchant
3.3. David Hume, âOf Tragedyâ
3.4. Edmund Burke, âSympathy,â âOf the Effects of Tragedyâ and âThe Sublimeâ
3.5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Letter to M. DâAlembert On the Theatre
3.6. Samuel Johnson, âPreface to Shakespeareâ
3.7. Voltaire, "Letter XVIII. On Tragedy"
3.8. Elizabeth Montagu, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
3.9 Joanna Baillie, âIntroductory Discourseâ

Chapter Four: The Nineteenth Century
Introduction
4.1. August Wilhelm Schlegel, A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
4.2. Charles Lamb, âOn the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference for Their Fitness for Stage Representationâ
4.3. William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeareâs Plays
4.4. Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
4.5. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
4.6. G.W.F. Hegel, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art
4.7. George Eliot, âThe Antigone and its Moralâ
4.8. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Chapter Five: 1900 to 1968
Introduction
5.1. Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams
5.2. A.C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy
5.3. William Butler Yeats, âThe Tragic Theatreâ
5.4. Virginia Woolf, âOn Not Knowing Greekâ
5.5. Bertolt Brecht, âA Short Organum for the Theatreâ
5.6. Robert Warshow, âThe Gangster as Tragic Heroâ
5.7. George Steiner, Death of Tragedy
5.8. Raymond Williams, âTragedy and Revolutionâ
5.9. Athol Fugard, âOn A View from the Bridgeâ

Chapter Six: Post-1968
Introduction
6.1 Augusto Boal, from The Theatre of the Oppressed
6.2. Ren© Girard, âThe Sacrificial Crisisâ
6.3. Joseph Meeker, âLiterary Tragedy and Ecological Catastropheâ
6.4. Catherine Belsey, The Subject of Tragedy
6.5. Biodun Jeyifo, âTragedy, History and Ideologyâ
6.6. Nicole Loraux, The Rope and the Sword
6.7. H©l¨ne Cixous, âEnter the Theatre (in between)â
6.8. Judith Butler, âPromiscuous Obedienceâ
6.9. Martha Nussbaum, âThe âMorality of Pityââ
6.10. David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity

Permissions Acknowledgements
Supplementary Reading
Index