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Unit 4 : Tragedy

 

Topics/Questions:

What is the definition of tragedy and how has it changed over time?

How do various authors examine the idea of blindness?

How can we evaluate the protagonists as tragic heroes?

How can we evaluate the adaptations of films based on classic texts?

How does each author explore the idea of fate?

Can Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy apply to more modern works?

 

Texts:              Oedipus by Sophocles

King Lear by Shakespeare

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

 

 

Oedipus

Character List

Oedipus

Jocasta 

Antigone 

Creon 

Teiresias

Ismene 

Shepherd

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/oedipus/charlist.html

King Lear

Character List

 

King Lear

Cordelia 

Goneril 

Regan 

Gloucester 

Edgar

Edmund 

Kent 

Albany 

Cornwall 

Fool 

Oswald 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/kinglear/charlist.html

 

 

http://www.novelguide.com/kinglear/characterprofiles.html

 

Mayor of Casterbridge

Character List

 

Michael Henchard

Susan Henchard Newson

Elizabeth-Jane Henchard

The furmity-seller

The townspeople of Weydon-Priors

Richard Newson

Elizabeth-Jane Newson

The townspeople of Casterbridge

Donald Farfrae

Joshua Jopp

Abel Whittle

Lucetta Templeman

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/casterbridge/charlist.html

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/casterbridge/characters.html

Background Info

 

Author: Sophicles

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_sophocles.html

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc1.htm

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/sophocles001.html

http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/sophocles_001.html

Time Period:

Ancient Greek

http://www.ancientgreece.com/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/

http://www.ancient-greece.org/

http://www.historylink102.com/greece3/index.htm

Background Info

 

Author: Shakespere

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm

http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/shakespeare-biography/

http://www.bardweb.net/man.html

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/

Time Period:  England, 1604–1605

http://www.northern.edu/marmorsa/delinednotes17thcentengland.htm

http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/life17th_dh.html

http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/welcome.htm

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-58870/historiography

 

Background Info

 

Author: Thomas Hardy

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/hardy.htm

http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/

http://www.applebookshop.co.uk/author/hardy.htm

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/bioov.html

 

Time Period:  England, Mid 1800s

http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Nineteenth_Century/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html

http://www.questia.com/library/history/european-history/great-britain/19th-century-britain/

 

Links

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/oedipus/

http://www.pathguy.com/oedipus.htm

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/oedipustheking.htm

 

Links

 

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/kinglear/

 

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/king_lear/king_lear.htm

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/kinglear/

 

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/plays/learsubj.html

 

Links

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/casterbridge/

 

http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/casterbridge/

 

http://www.enotes.com/mayor-casterbridge/

 

http://www.readprint.com/work-725/Thomas-Hardy