Tragedy
This paper gives an opportunity to study canonical texts from one of the central Greek genres, its later Roman descendants which were particularly influential on English tragedy, and some central English tragedies which owe much to this tradition.
The prescribed texts are: Aeschylus, Agamemnon ; Sophocles, Oedipus The King ; Euripides, Medea and Hecuba ; Seneca, Medea and Thyestes ; Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy ; Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great (Parts 1 and 2), Edward II , Dr Faustus , Dido Queen of Carthage ; Shakespeare; Jonson, Sejanus, Catiline ; Webster, The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi ; Middleton, The Changeling , Women Beware Women ; Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ; Milton, Samson Agonistes .
There will be an optional commentary question with passages from Aeschylus, Agamemnon and Seneca, Thyestes .
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