Tragedy: a Student Handbook (Hard copy)

Tragedy: a Student Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to tragedy, designed for advanced level students. It provides clear explanations of key concepts in tragedy and changing ideas about tragedy over time, from classical theories and Renaissance thinking through to modern interpretations.

The text includes short extracts from criticism, a glossary of terms and questions to provoke reflection on the way plays use the tragic form.

There are short introductions to broad periods and contexts – Greek and Renaissance tragedy, European playwrights of the late 19th century, modern American, British and Irish tragedy – as well as accounts of the work of significant playwrights, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Webster, Marlowe, Ibsen, Beckett, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Brian Friel.