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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Tragedy

Top ten

Early works

Miscellaneous

Top ten

Belsey, Catherine. The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Methuen, 1985.

Bradbrook, M. C. Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. 3rd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2004.*

Drakakis, John, and Naomi Conn Liebler, eds. Tragedy. (Longman Critical Readers). Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Gellrich, M. Tragedy and Theory : The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

Kerrigan, John. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Neill, Michael. Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 1998.*

Silk, Michael S. Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Williams, Raymond. Modern Tragedy. London: Chatto, 1966.

Early works

Addison, Joseph. "English Tragedy." In Addison, Critical Essays from the Spectator: With Four Essays by Richard Steele. Ed. Donald F. Bond. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970. 210-20.*

Alexander, William (Sir). Anacrisis: or a Censure of some Poets Ancient and Modern. c. 1634. 1st pub. in the Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden. Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1711. (Renaissance Poetry; Classical literature; Genius; Inspiration; Fiction; Epic poetry; Tragedy; Sidney)

_____. Anacrisis. In Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of Stirling. Edinburgh, 1877.

_____. Anacrisis. In Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Joel Elias Spingarn. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908-9.

Aristotle. Peri poietikés. Bilingual edition (Greek and English). In S. H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art. 1895. 4th. ed.: London: Macmillan, 1932. 1-111.

_____. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. In The Great Critics. Ed. James Harry Smith and Edd Wnfield Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 1-36.*

_____. Peri poietikés. Bilingual edition (Greek and Spanish). In Sobre lo Sublime. Poética. Ed. and trans. José Alsina Clota. Barcelona: Bosch, 1977. 208-327.

_____. On the Art of Poetry. Trans. T. S. Dorsch. In Classical Literary Criticism 29-76.

_____. The Poetics. Trans. in Gilbert 69-124.

_____. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. In H. Adams 47-66.

_____. Poetics. In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 60-83.*

_____. Poética. Trilingual edition (Greek, Latin and Spanish). Ed. Valentín García Yebra. Madrid: Gredos, 1972.

_____. La poétique. Ed. and trans. Rosalyne Dupont-Roc y Jean Lallot. Paris: Seuil, 1980.

_____. Poética. Ed. and trans. Juan David García Bacca. 4th. ed. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Ediciones de la Biblioteca,1982.

_____. El arte poética. Trans. José Goya y Muniain. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1948. 7th. ed., 1984. Trans. of Peri poietikés.

_____. The Poetics. Trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. In Aristotle: The Poetics. "Longinus": On the Sublime. Demetrius: On Style. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1927.

Burckhardt, Jacob. Historia de la cultura griega II. Trans. Antonio Tovar and Germán J. Fons. (Grandes obras de la cultura). Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2005.* (Greek art: sculpture, painting, architecture, philosophy of art; poetry and music, Homer, presocratic philosophers, epigrams, elegies, lyric, tragedy, comedy, Aristophanes, oratory, sophists, Greek philosophy, science, history, Greek character and culture, agonism, politics).

Cascales, Francisco de. "De la tragedia." In Cascales, Tablas poéticas. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1975. 185-202.

Christopherson, John. Carmina appended to Jephtha. 1546.

Corneille, Pierre. "A Discourse on Tragedy." 1660. (Selection). Trans. J. H. Smith. In The Great Critics.Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 530.*

Cunliffe, John W. The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1893.

Dryden, John. "Preface to Troilus and Cressida, including 'The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy.'" 1679. In Dryden, Selected Criticism. Edited by James Kinsley and George Parfitt. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970. 159-178.*

_____. "The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy: The Preface to Troilus and Cressida." 1679. In Dryden's Essays. London: Dent, 1912. 126-45.*

_____. From the Preface to Troilus and Cressida. In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

_____. "Of Comedy, Farce, and Tragedy: Preface to An Evening's Love; or, The Mock Astrologer." 1680. In Dryden's Essays. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1912. 77-86.*

_____. Selected Criticism. Edited by James Kinsley and George Parfitt. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.*

Evanthius. De Comoedia et Tragoedia. In Commentum Terenti. Ed. Paul Wessner. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Teubner, 1969.

_____. On Drama. Trans. O. B. Hardison. In Hardison 39-44.

Goethe, J. W. von. "Nachlese zu Aristoteles Poetik." 1827. In Goethe, Kleine Schriften.

_____. "Supplement to Aristotle's Poetics." Trans. Elizabeth L. Wenning. (Selection.) In The Great Critics. Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 537-39.*

Giraldi, Giambattista (Cinthio). "An Address to the Reader by the Tragedy of Orbecche." 1541. Trans. Allan H. Gilbert. In Gilbert 243-46.

_____. "The Apology for Dido." 1543. Select. and trans. Allan H. Gilbert. In Gilbert 246-52.

_____. Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie. In Giraldi, Scritti Estetici: De' Romanzi, delle Comedie e delle Tragedie. Ed. Giulio Antimaco. 2 vols. (Biblioteca rara da Daelli, LI-LII). Milano, 1864. 1864. (On the unity of time, etc.).

_____. "On the Composition of Comedies and Tragedies." 1543. Select. and trans. Allan H. Gilbert. In Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden. Ed. Allan H. Gilbert 1940. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962. 252-62.*

Heinsius, Daniel. De tragoediae constitutione. 1611.

La Taille, J. de. De l'Art de la tragédie. 1572.

_____. De l'Art de la tragédie. Ed. Fred West. Manchester, 1939.

López Pinciano, Alonso. "Epistola [octaua] de la tragedia y sus diferencias." In López Pinciano, Philosophia antigua poetica. 1596. Madrid: CSIC, 1973. 2.301-85.*

Luzán, Ignacio de. "De la tragedia y comedia y otras poesías dramáticas." In Luzán, La Poética. Book 3.

Milton, John. "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy." Preface to Samson Agonistes. 1671. In The Poems of John Milton. Ed. H. Darbishire. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1961. 505-6.*

_____. Preface to Samson Agonistes. 1671. In Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden. Ed. A. H. Gilbert. 1940. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962. 592-93.*

Minor, Jacob. Die Schicksalsdrama. 1884.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik. Oder: Griechentum und Pessimismus. 1872.

_____. Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechenthum und Pessimismus: Neue Ausgabe mit dem Versuch einer Selbstkritik. Leipzig: Frizsch, 1886.

_____. Die Geburt der Tragödie. In Nietzsche, GessamleteWerke. Musarion. Vol. 3.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Francis Golffing. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House-Vintage, 1967.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings. Ed. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy. Ed. and trans. Douglas Smith. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

_____. From The Birth of Tragedy. In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

_____. El nacimiento de la tragedia: o Grecia y el pesimismo. Ed. and trans. Andrés Sánchez Pascual. 7th ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1984.*

_____. El Nacimiento de la Tragedia. El Caminante y su Sombra. La Ciencia Jovial. Introd. Germán Cano. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Nietzsche, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014.*

Racine, Jean. Principes de la tragédie. Marginal comments on Aristotle. 1951.

Rodríguez Adrados. El origen del teatro: Fiesta, comedia y tragedia.

Rymer, Thomas. The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd and Examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients and by the Common Sense of All Ages, in a Letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq. 1678.

_____. A Short View of Tragedy; its Original, Excellency, and Corruption. With Some Reflections on Shakespear, and other Practitioners for the Stage. 1692 (dated 1693). London: Routledge, 1994.

_____. A Short View of Tragedy. In The Critical Works of Thomas Rymer. Ed. Curt A. Zimansky. New Haven: Yale UP, 1956.

_____. Critical Works. Ed. C. A. Zimanski. New Haven: Yale UP, 1956.

Saint-Évremond. Of Tragedy, Ancient and Modern. 1672. Trans. Mr. des Maizeaux. Select. in Gilbert 660-63.

Schiller, Friedrich. "On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy." 1803. (Select.). In The Great Critics. Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 535-36.*

Singer, H. W. Das Bürgerliche Trauerspiel in England. 1891.

Voltaire. "Sobre la tragedia." In Voltaire, Cartas filosóficas. 1734. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1976. 18th letter.

_____. "Decimoctava carta. Sobre la tragedia." In Voltaire, Cartas filosóficas. Diccionario filosófico. Memorias para servir a la vida de Voltaire escritas por él mismo. Prologue by Fernando Savater. Introd. Martí Domínguez. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 82-86.*

Walpole, Horace. Letter to the Countess of Upper Ossory, on tragedy and comedy. In The Letters of Horace Walpole. Ed. Paget Toynbee. Oxfod, 1903-5.

Webster, John. "To the Reader in, The White Divel . . . Written by Iohn Webster. London: Printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer, 1612.

_____. "To the Reader of The White Devil." 1612. Select. in Literary Criticism from Plato to Dryden. Ed. Gilbert. 551.*

_____. "To the Reader." From The White Devil. In Writing and the English Renaissance. Ed. William Zunder and Suzanne Trill. Harlow (Essex): Longman, 1996. 266-67.*

Wolseley, Robert. Preface to Valentinian. Tragedy. (Based on Fletcher's Valentinian). 1685.

Miscellaneous

Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson. "Tragedy and Comedy." In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002.*

Bahr, Hermann. Dialog vom Tragischen. Berlin, 1904.

Baker, Howard. Induction to Tragedy: An Study in Development of Form in Gorboduc, The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1939.

Baldry, H. C. The Greek Tragic Theatre. New York: Norton, 1973.

Barber, C. L. Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Bayley, John. Shakespeare and Tragedy. London: Routledge, 1981.

Belsey, Catherine. "Tragedy, Justice and the Subject." In 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century. Ed. F. Barker et al. Colchester: U of Essex P, 1981. 166-86.

_____. The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Methuen, 1985.

_____. "The Divided Tragic Hero." In A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume 1: The Tragedies. Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. 2006. 73-94.*

Benjamin, Walter. Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. 1928. Frankfurt a/M: Suhrkamp, 1963.

_____. Der Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. Frankfurt a/M: Suhrkamp, 1963.

_____. The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Trans. John Osborne. London: New Left Books, 1977; New Left Books-Verso, 1985.

Bevis, Richard W. "The World Well Lost: Tragedy." In Bevis, English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789. Harlow: Longman, 1988. 57-70.*

_____. "Sorrows Like Your Own: Augustan Tragedy." In Bevis, English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789. Harlow: Longman, 1988. 123-45.*

_____. "The Luxury of Grief: Georgian Tragedy and Tragicomedy." In Bevis, English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789. Harlow: Longman, 1988. 201-11.*

Bobes, Carmen, et al. "Cap. IV. Aristóteles. Teoría de la tragedia." In Bobes et al., Historia de la Teoría Literaria, I: La Antigüedad Grecolatina. Madrid: Gredos, 1995. 107-50.*

Bowers, Fredson T. Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1940.

_____. Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy 1587-1642. Gloucester (MA): Peter Smith, 1959.

Bradbrook, M. C. Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1935.

_____. Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. 1904. 2nd. ed. London: Macmillan, 1908.

_____. Shakespearean Tragedy. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1965.

_____. Shakespearean Tragedy. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

_____. Shakespearean Tragedy. New York: St. Martin's, 1978.

Brereton, G. Principles of Tragedy. Miami: U of Miami P, 1969.

Brooke, Nicholas. Horrid Laughter in Jacobean Tragedy. London: Open Books, 1979.

Brooks, Cleanth. "Tragedy and Comedy: The Internal Focus." In Wimsatt and Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History. New York: Knopf, 1957. 555-82.*

Bushnell, R. W. Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

Bushnell, Rebecca, ed. A Companion to Tragedy. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2004.

Callaghan, Dympna. Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of King Lear, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.

Caraher, Brian. Trespassing Tragedy: Melodramas of Horror. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Carlson, Julie A., ed. South Atlantic Quarterly special issue: "Domestic / Tragedy" (1998).

Champion, Larry S. Tragic Patterns in Jacobean and Caroline Drama. Knoxville: U of Tenesse P, 1977.

Clare, Janet. (U College Dublin). Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance. (Writers and Their Work). Tavistock (Devon): Northcote House, 2005.

Cook, Albert. The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean. Cambridge (MA), 1949.

Coyle, Martin. "The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries." In A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume 1: The Tragedies. Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. 2006. 23-46.*

Cropp, Martin, Elaine Fantham and S. E. Scully, eds. Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher. U of Calgary Press, 1986.

Cunliffe, John W. "4. Early English Tragedy." In The Drama to 1642, Part One. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Vol. 5 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. Online at Bartleby.com (Cinthio, Sackville and Norton, Seneca, Famous Victories of Henry the fifth, Troublesome Raigne of King John, True Chronicle History of King Leir).

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Cunningham, J. V. "The Donatan Tradition." (Donatus on tragedy). In Cunningham, Woe or Wonder: The Emotional Effect of Shakespearean Tragedy. Denver: U of Denver P, 1951.

Danson, Lawrence. Tragic Alphabet. New Haven and London, 1974.

Díaz Tejera, A. Ayer y hoy de la tragedia. Sevilla: Alfar, 1989.

Dobrée, Bonamy. Restoration Tragedy. Oxford, 1929.

Docherty, Thomas. "Tragedy and the Nationalist Condition of Criticism." Textual Practice 10.3 (1996): 479-506.*