Eight great tragedies [with essays]
By: Edited by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman [and] William Burto.
Contributors: Berman, Morton.; Burto, William.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Drama -- Collections.; Tragedy.
Notes: "A Mentor book, MD195".

Bibliography:p. 440-443.
Table of contents: value: The tragedies. Prometheus bound, by Aeschylus. Oedipus, the King, by Sophocles. Hippolytus, by Euripides. King Lear, by W. Shakespeare. Ghosts, by H. Ibsen. Miss Julie, by A. Strindberg. On Baile's Strand, by W. B. Yeats. Desire under the elms, by E. O'Neil.; value: The essays. From The poetics, by Aristotle. Of tragedy, by D. Hume. The tragic, by R. W. Emerson. From Shakespeare's problem plays, by E. M. W. Tillyard. From Principles of literary criticism, by I. A. Richards. From The tragic fallacy, by J. W. Krutch. A note on the Greek theater.