Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

By Bennett Simon

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300058055

ISBN13:9780300058055

Release Date:July 1993

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Drama Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Psychology Psychology & Counseling Tragedy

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