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Author

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994.

Title Tragic themes in Western literature / seven essays by Bernard Knox ... [et al.] ; edited with an introduction by Cleanth Brooks.

Imprint

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1960, c1955.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus	808.2512 B791t 1960	---	Lib Use Only

Description	178 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction / Cleanth Brooks -- 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.
Subject	Tragedy.
	Drama -- History and criticism.
	Drama -- Themes, motives.