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Tragedy and the Return of the Dead (Rethinking the Early Modern) by John D Lyons; Project Muse is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tragedy and the Return of the Dead (Rethinking the Early Modern) about?
Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the ancient Athenians. Tragedy and the Return of the Dead recovers a model of the tragic that fits ancient tragedies, early modern tragedies, as well as contemporary narratives and films no longer called “tragi
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John D Lyons; Project Muse
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810137042
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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