Introduction: Ideas of Tragedy and the Tragic Chapter 1: Tragedy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Introduction 1. Plato, from The Republic , ed. and trans. John Llewelyn Davies and D.J. Vaughan 2. Aristotle, from Poetics trans Ingram Bywater 3. Horace from Ars Poetica trans.
J. Conington 4. Longinus from On the Sublime trans. W. Rhys Roberts 5. Evanthius from De Fabula trans. O.B.
Hardison, Jr. 6. Augustine, from T he Confessions , trans. E.B. Pusey Chapter 2: Tragedy in the Early Modern Period Introduction 1. G.B.
Giraldi Cinthio, from Discorsi intorno al comporr.e delle comedie e delle tragedie (1554) trans. Daniel Javitch 2. Lodovico Castelvetro from Poetica d''Aristotele Vulgarizzata et Sposta (1570) ed. and trans. Andrew Bongiorno 3. Stephen Gosson, from The School of Abuse (1579) 4. Sir Philip Sidney, from The Defense of Poesy (c.
1581) 5. Thomas Heywood, from An Apology for Actors (1612) 6. John Milton, ''Of that Sort of Dramatic Poem which is call''d Tragedy'' (1671) 7. René Rapin, Reflexions Sur la Poetique D''Aristote trans. Thomas Rymer (1674) 8. John Dryden from ''The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy'' (1679) 9. Jean Racine, from prefaces to Andromaque and Phèdre trans. John Cairncross Chapter 3: Tragedy in the Eighteenth Century Introduction 1.
Joseph Addison, from The Spectator Nos. 39, 40, 418 (1711-1712) 2. George Lillo, from The London Merchant (1732) 3. David Hume, ''Of Tragedy'' from Essays Moral, Political and Literary (1742-1754) 4. Edmund Burke, ''Of the Effects of Tragedy'' from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Letter to D''Alembert on the Theatre (1758) 6. Samuel Johnson from the Preface to Shakespeare (1792) 7. Joanna Baillie from ''Introductory Discourse'' to Plays on the Passions (1798) Chapter 4: Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century Introduction 1.
August W. Von Schlegel from Lectures on Dramatic Art (1808), trans. John Black 2. William Hazlitt, from Characters of Shakespeare''s Plays (1808) 3. Charles Lamb, from ''On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference for their Fitness for Stage Presentation'' (1811) 4. Percy Bysshe Shelley, from A Defense of Poetry (1840) 5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge from ''Notes on the Tragedies of Shakespeare'' 6. G.
W.F. Hegel, ''Tragedy as a Dramatic Art'' from Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) trans. T.M. Knox 7. Arthur Schopenhauer from The World as Will and Representation (1818/ 1844) trans. R.
B. Haldane and J. Kemp 8. George Eliot, ''Antigone and its Moral'' from The Leader, VII (1856) 9. Friedrich Nietzsche from The Birth of Tragedy (1872) trans. William A. Haussmann Chapter 5: Modern Tragedy Introduction 1. Sigmund Freud from The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) ed.
and trans. A.A. Brill 2. A.C. Bradley from Shakespearean Tragedy (1919) 3. W.
B. Yeats. ''The Tragic Theatre'', in Essays of W.B. Yeats (1924) 4. Bertolt Brecht, from ''A Short Organum for the Theatre'' (1948) 5. Robert Warshow, from ''The Gangster as Tragic Hero'' (1948) 6. George Steiner, from The Death of Tragedy (1961) 7.
Raymond Williams from ''Tragedy and Revolution'' from Modern Tragedy (1966) 8. Athol Fugard, from ''1963'' (1983) Chapter 6: Tragedy Since 1968 Introduction 1. Augusto Boal, from The Theatre of the Oppressed , trans. Charles A. and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride and Emily Fryer (2000) 2. René Girard, from Violence and the Sacred (1977) 3. Joseph Meeker, from The Comedy of Survival (1974) 4. Catherine Belsey from The Subject of Tragedy (1985) 5.
Nicole Loraux from Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (1987) 6. Helene Cixous, from ''Enter the Theatre'' (1999) 7. Judith Butler, from chapter 1 of Antigone''s Claim (2000) 8. Martha Nussbaum, from ''The Morality of Pity'' (2008) 9. T.J. Clark from ''For a Left with No Future'' (2012) 10. David Scott, from Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004) 12.
Biodun Jeyifo, from ''Tragedy, History, and Ideology'' (1985) Endnotes Further reading Index Of Subjects and Names.