Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett
Bennett Simon
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0300058055
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Language: English
Publish: 743842800000
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.