A Collection of Classic & Modern Essays on Drama

This book intends to prepare students recollection of essays on classic and modern drama. It collects eight best essays from dedicated scholars that teach in the most well-known universities and it is being viable as class work led by an instructor. What the contributors do clearly share is their conviction that tragedy matters: that tragic theater functioned as a vehicle for the expression of the deepest fears and most radical dreams of the society and culture that engendered it. The tragic scene maybe played out in a stifling drawing room or on a battle field, but wherever it happens, the experience has the power to evoke a culture s conception and questions about authority and the extent to which we determine the course of our own lives