Tragic drama and the family : psychoanalytic studies from Aeschylus to Beckett /

• Main Author: Simon, Bennett 1933- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1988.
• Subjects: Τραγωδία > Ιστορία και κριτική; Οικογένεια στη λογοτεχνία; Ψυχανάλυση και λογοτεχνία

Table of Contents:

• From epic to tragedy : the birth of tragedy
• Aeschylus' Oresteia
• Euripides' Medea
• All Germains spill at once : Shakespeare's King Lear
• A tale told by a lion : Shakespeare's MacBeth
• A mistake my being born a man : O'Neill's Long day's journey into night
• Beckett's End game and the abortion of desire
• Psychoanalytic theories and tragic drama.