Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy [Paperback]

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.Apollo and Dionysus; Aeschylus; Sophocles; impious Euripedes; nature and purity in the renaissance; Ibsen and Hardy, nature's lost sons; Zarathustra and the rebirth of tragedy.