Tragedy and the Return of the Dead

by John D. Lyons

Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the ancient Athenians. Tragedy and the Return of the Dead recovers a model of the tragic that fits ancient tragedies, early modern tragedies, as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810137046
• ISBN13: 9780810137042
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"