Eight Great Tragedies Book

Eight Great Tragedies General Introduction

Part One: The Tragedies
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, translated by E. A. Havelock Sophocles: Oedipus the King, translated by J. T. Sheppard Euripides: Hippolytus, translated by F. L. Lucas William Shakespeare: King Lear
Henrik Isben: Ghosts, translated by William Archer August Strindberg: Miss Julie, translated by C. D. Locock William Butler Yeats: On Baile's Strand
Eugene O'Neill: Desire under the Elms

Part Two: The Essays
Aristotle: From The Poetics, translated by L. J. Potts David Hume: Of Tragedy
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Tragic
E. M. W. Tillyard: From Shakespeare's Problem Plays
I. A. Richards: From Principles of Literary Criticism
Joseph Wood Krutch: From The Tragic Fallacy
A Note on the Greek Theater

Bibliography