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For those of you who would like a little extra critical reading, here is a select reading list. It is by no means comprehensive, but should give you a helpful start:

Tragedy: Select reading

This is by no means a comprehensive reading list, but it should give you a good starting point to work from.

Bamber, L. Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare (Stanford, 1982)

Bratchell, D.F. (ed) Shakespearean Tragedy (London and New York, 1990)

Brewer, D Symbolic Stories: Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in Literature (Cambridge, 1980)

Draper, R.P (ed) Tragedy: Developments in Criticism (London, 1980)

Dutton, R Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition (Brighton, 1986)

Dutton, R, and Howard, J.E. A Companion to Shakespeare’s works, Vol :, The Tragedies (Oxford 2003)

Eagleton, T. Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (Oxford, 2003)

Easterling, P.E (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1997)

Everett, B. Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Oxford, 1989)

Heilman, R. Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience (Seattle, 1968)

Kahn, C. Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (London, 1997)

Kerrigan, J. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (Oxford, 1996)

Macintosh, F. Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork, 1994)

Miller, A. Theatre Essays,  2^nd edn, ed, Robert A Martin (London, 1994)

Miola, R.S. Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca (Oxford, 1992)

Poole, Adrian, Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005)

Steiner, G The Death of Tragedy (London, 1961, repr New York 1980)

Williams, R. Modern Tragedy (London, 1966, revised edn, 1979)