Tragic Drama and the Family
Download or Read eBook Tragic Drama and the Family PDF written by Bennett Simon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Bennett Simon |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1988-01-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0300058055 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780300058055 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Tragic Drama and the Family by : Bennett Simon
Book excerpt: One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama--as of psychoanalysis-- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.
