Author: Reiss, Timothy J.
Title: Tragedy & Truth. Studies in the Development of a Renaissance & Neoclassical Discourse
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1980). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x, 334 pp. Slight binding corner bump, small tear to dustwrapper, VG. dust ¶ Contents: A Hypothesis & Its Prehistory; Buchanan, Montaigne, & the Difficulty of Speaking; Jodelle's 'Cleopatre' & the Enchanted Circle; Power & Fallibility ('Tamburlaine' and 'Faustus'); 'Les Juifves': Possession & the Willful Eye; Hamlet on Distraction & Fortinbras on Knowledge; The Lear of the Future; A New Time & the Glory that was Egypt; Social Truth & the Will to Power: Richelieu, Hobbes,'Bajazet'; Classicism, the Individual & Economic Exchange ('Iphigenie'); From Phedre to History: The Truths of Time & the Fictions of Eternity; Tragedy & Truth.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Renaissance, Neoclassical, Tragedy, , , ,