Modern Tragedy

by Williams, Raymond; McCallum, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9781551116341
• ISBN10: 1551116340
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience.Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Introduction: Reading Modern Tragedy in the Twenty-First Century	9	(14)
A Note on the Text	23	(4)
Modern Tragedy
Acknowledgements	27	(2)
Foreword	29	(4)
PART ONE: TRAGIC IDEAS
Tragedy and Experience	33	(4)
Tragedy and the Tradition	37	(32)
Tragedy and Contemporary Ideas	69	(18)
Tragedy and Revolution	87	(22)
Continuity	109	(4)
PART TWO: MODERN TRAGIC LITERATURE
From Hero to Victim: The Making of Liberal Tragedy, to Ibsen and Miller	113	(20)
Private Tragedy: Strindberg, O'Neill, Tennessee Williams	133	(16)
Social and Personal Tragedy: Tolstoy and Lawrence	149	(20)
Tragic Deadlock and Stalemate: Chekhov, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett	169	(20)
Tragic Resignation and Sacrifice: Eliot and Pasternak	189	(20)
Tragic Despair and Revolt: Camus and Sartre	209	(18)
A Rejection of Tragedy: Brecht	227	(16)
Works Cited and Further Reading	243	(2)
Index	245