Tragedy With a Vengeance: Violence, Vengeance and Identity From Attic Tragedy to Shakespeare

This project explores the relation between violence and identity along one branch of the Western tragic tradition---from its roots in the soil of classical Attica, through Senecan tragedy, and into early modern drama in English. Classical and early modern tragedy is seductive in its sophisticated, savage portrayals of the relations between violence and who we are as human beings. In this study I explore these relations from a perspective that is both diachronic and psychoanalytic. My central argument is that throughout this tradition, violence defines identity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative and World Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Dodson-Robinson, Eric Andrew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Blake, Nancy

• Literature, Classical
• Literature, Comparative
• Theater
• Literature, English

Identifier

(UMI)AAI3362770

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72571