Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and index
Trojan suffering, tragic gods, and transhistorical metaphysics / Edith Hall -- Hardcore tragedy / Ewan Fernie -- Tragedy and disgust / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- Tragedy and the sign of the eclipse / Anne C. Henry -- Johnson's too Roman plays: from Julius Caesar to Sejanus and Caitline / John Henderson -- Neoclassicisms / Raphael Lyne -- Tragedy and exile / Jennifer Wallace -- Narratives of tragic empathy: Prometheus bound and Frankenstein / Vanda Zajko -- Tragedy and childhood / Peter Hollindale -- Parricide versus filicide: Oedipus and Medea on the modern stage / Fiona Macintosh -- "Suffering into wisdom": the tragedy of Wilde / Alison Hennegan -- Tarzan of Athens, Dionysus in Africa: Wilson Knight and Wole Soyinka / Neil Rhodes -- Postmodern tragedy? Returning to John Ford / Mark Houlahan -- Tragedy and the future / Rowland Wymer.
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