num_pages: 288
description: Argues that an important continuity between ancient and modern drama and between tragic drama and psychoanalysis is the focus on the family. Simon covers six tragedies in which the family is at war with itself: Oresteia, Medea, King Lear, Endgame, Long Day's Journey into Night, Macbeth.
language: English
title: Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett
titlecomplete: Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Yale University Press