A Companion to Tragedy [Paperback]

• Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity
  
• Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy
  
• Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history
  
• Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1
Rebecca Bushnell

Tragic Thought

Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5

1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25
Richard Seaford

Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39

3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41
Kathy Eden

4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51
Mark W. Roche

5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68
James I. Porter

6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88
Julia Reinhard Lupton

Part III Tragedy and History 107

7 Tragedy and City 109
Deborah Boedeker alƒ.