Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. The Birth of Tragedy 25
5. Euripides: Towards Anti-tragedy 42
6. Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy 54
7. Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background 76
8. From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure 93
9. Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest 111
10. The Post-tragic Vision of Romance 129
11. From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen 141
12. Goethe’s Transcendence of Tragedy 155
13. Tragedy and Psychology 176
14. Conclusion 189
15. Notes 192
16. Index 216