This book examines Tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day.
Quayson uses Shakespeare\'s Othell.
He draws from many key works - Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear - to establish the main contours of tragedy.
Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World Literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy.
It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through Postcolonial literature.
This book examines Tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day