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178 pages 21 cm These seven essays by leading scholars and critics examine tragic themes in Western literature. They identify the qualities that give each work under discussion its distinctive characters and seek to reveal the ultimate human unity which underlies all great tragedies. - from the back cover Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 177-178) Sophocles' Oedipus / Bernard Knox -- The world of Hamlet / Maynard Mack -- Samson Agonistes / Chauncey B. Tinker -- The tragedy of passion: Racine's Phèdre / Henri Peyre -- The tragic world of the Karamazovs / Richard B. Sewall -- Tragedy of idealism: Henrik Ibsen / Konstantin Reichardt -- The saint as tragic hero: Saint Joan and Murder in the cathedral / Louis L. Martz

Author

seven essays by Bernard Knox [and others] Edited with an introd. by Cleanth Brooks

Publisher

New Haven, Yale University Press

Published

1955

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24