7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Ibsen’s Ghosts and the Rejection of the Tragic 9
6. 2. Anti-Tragic Drama after Ibsen 21
7. 3. Chekhov and the Tragic 51
8. 4. The Return of the Tragic in Fiction 63
9. 5. Nietzsche and the Redefining of the Tragic 97
10. 6. The ‘Tragico-Dionysian’ and D. H. Lawrence 121
11. 7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic 144
12. 8. The Tragic, Pragmatism and the Postmodern 159
13. Index 177