Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett by Christoph Menke

Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

Christoph Menke with James Phillips (Translator)

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary philosophy

Description

Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernit...

Read more

Community reviews

This book doesn't have any reviews or ratings yet!

If you've read it, mark it as 'read' and add a review to help others in the StoryGraph community figure out if it might be a book for them!

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.