What Was Tragedy?

Contents

• The Philosophy of the Tragic and the Poetics of Tragedy
• 1 Our Tragic Culture
• 2 An Early Modern Poetics of Tragedy
• The World We Have Lost
• 3 Simple Pathetic Tragedy
• 4 Operatic Discoveries
• 5 Counter-Reformation Tragedy
• 6 History as Tragedy, Tragedy as Design
• Bibliography