附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index.
Introduction: The Loss of Tragic Value and the Value of Tragic Loss -- A Gallous Story or a Dirty Deed?: J.M. Synge and the Tragedy of Evasion -- Delusion and Disillusionment: The Tragedy of Meliorism in Sean O'Casey's Early Drama -- Beyond Tragedy: Samuel Beckett and the Art of Confusion.
摘要:In this text, the author considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences between the three writers, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.
