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Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania).Tragic Thought.Part One: Tragedy and the Gods.1.Tragedy and Ritual: Christiane Sorvinou-Inwood (author).2.Tragedy and Dionysus: Richard Seaford (University of Exeter).Part Two: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis.3. Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction: Kathy Eden (Columbia University).4. The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy: Mark W. Roche (University of Notre Dame).5. Nietzsche and Tragedy: James Porter (University of Michigan).6. Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine).Part Three: Tragedy and History.7. Tragedy and City: Deborah Boedeker (Brown University) and Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University).8. Tragedy and Materialist Thought: Hugh Grady (Arcadia University).9. Tragedy and Feminism: Victoria Wohl (Ohio State University).Tragedy in History.Part Four: Tragedy in Antiquity.10. Tragedy and Myth: Alan Sommerstein (University of Nottingham).11. Tragedy and Epic: Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan).12. Tragedy in Performance: Michael Halleran (University of Washington).13. The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Role and Social Functions: Claude Calame (Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) translated by Dan Edelstein.14. Women in Greek Tragedy: Sheila Murnahagn (University of Pennsylvania).15. Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy: Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania).16. Roman Tragedy: Alessandro Schiesaro (King's College, University of London).Part Five: Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy.17. The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania).18. Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State: Matthew H. Wikander (University of Toledo).19. English Revenge Tragedy: Michael Neill (University of Auckland).20. Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: Cervantes to Calderon: Margaret R. Greer (Duke University).Part Six: Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy.21. Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France: Richard E. Goodkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison).22. French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine: Mitchell Greenberg (Cornell University).23. Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy: Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado at Boulder).24. German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Buchner: Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania).25. French Romantic Tragedy: Barbara T. Cooper (University of New Hampshire).Part Seven: Tragedy and Modernity.26. Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe: Gail Finney (Univeristy of California, Davis).27. Tragedy in the Modern American Theatre: Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut).28. Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances: Timothy J. Reiss (New York University).Index

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