The Question of Character and Personality in Greek Tragedy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Gill (0000-0003-3091-8827, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772761 |
| OpenAlex | W2322035831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 10 |
There has been a good deal of debate recently on this question, at least on one aspect of it. Critics have discussed repeatedly the question of the relationship between character and the other components of tragic drama, such as action, theme and image. Underlying these discussions, in Classical as well as English literary critical circles, has been a gradual reaction against the Bradleyan assumption that tragic drama (like the novel) is organized around a central character or personality, whose distinctive consciousness interpenetrates the language of the play and determines its action. Critics have tended to stress the subordinate re
Art · Geometry · Greek tragedy · Literature · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Classical Antiquity Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |