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Tragic drama and the family : psychoanalytic studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

Dr. Bennett Simon provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.
Print Book, English, ©1988
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1988
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
9780300041323, 9780300058055, 0300041322, 0300058055
17546750
From epic to tragedy : the birth of tragedy
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Euripides' Medea
All Germains spill at once : Shakespeare's King Lear
A tale told by a lion : Shakespeare's MacBeth
A mistake my being born a man : O'Neill's Long day's journey into night
Beckett's End game and the abortion of desire
Psychoanalytic theories and tragic drama