Defining Tragedy
First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.
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Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
In Collection(s): Questioning Genre
tragedy, theatre, drama, aesthetics, Aristotle, philosophy, Euripides, Sophocles, shakespeare, Greek literature, #greatwriters
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Defining Tragedy by Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/defining-tragedy. Published on 01 March 2010. Accessed on 28 January 2023.
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