Introduction to Tragedy
Unless a link is provided, all the resources listed below are in the Library.
Ask Rachel if you would like any help finding them.
Unless a link is provided, all the resources listed below are in the Library.
Ask Rachel if you would like any help finding them.
Examines what the term tragedy meant to Shakespeare and his contemporaries – an important context for thinking about the plays both within their genre(s) and as they would have been viewed at the time of their production. Emagazine, issue 85.
Explains the key theories of tragedy, showing how much ideas have changed over time and reveals how drama reflects the times on which it is written, questioning whether tragedy is still possible in modern times. Emagazine, issue 75.
A BBC Radio 4 programme in which Melvynn Bragg and academics discuss the history of the ancient genre of tragedy and examines whether we have a psychological needs for it. Open this programme.
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