Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Adrian Poole (Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192802354


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 August 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction


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Author:   Adrian Poole (Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 17.50cm
Weight:   0.135kg
ISBN:  

9780192802354


ISBN 10:   0192802356
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 August 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Who needs it? 2: Once upon a time 3: The living dead 4: Who's to blame? 5: Big ideas 6: No laughing matter 7: Words, words, words 8: Good timing 9: Pain and gain

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'Oxford's always stimulating Very Short Introductions series.' Independent on Sunday


'Oxford's always stimulating Very Short Introductions series.' * Independent on Sunday *


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Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written and lectured on Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, on literary translation and on nineteenth-century English literature. His publications include Gissing in Context (1975), Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Shakespeare and the Victorians (2003), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (1995, co-edited with Jeremy Maule), and editions of novels by Dickens, James and R. L. Stevenson. He is working on a project about witnessing tragedy developed out of his 1999 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, 'Macbeth and the Third Person'.

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