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Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy

Keith M. May

PublishedDec 31, 1989
LanguageEnglish

Keith May discusses the development, and frequent misunderstanding of, tragedy - explaining the insights of Nietzsche in "The Birth of Tragedy". He looks at its history from the early Greek playwrights, to Renaissance drama, up to more modern writers of tragedy such as Ibsen and Hardy.