Elements of tragedy
"Mrs. Krook isolates four elements fundamental to the universal tragic pattern: an act or situation of shame or horror which precipitates a spectacle of intense human suffering followed by a deeper knowledge of man's condition issuing in a final reaffirmation of the value of human life. She tests the validity of her scheme by examining plays by Sophocles and Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekhov, and indicates how it may be used to distinguish the tragic from the comic, the satiric, and the heroic by more detailed studies of the The Sea Gull and The Cherry Orchard, Antony and Cleopatra, and Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women"--from back cover
Print Book, English, 1969
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969