Table of Contents:
  • Undoing : lusis and the analysis of irony
  • The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgment
  • Line for line
  • Choreography : the lyric voice of tragedy
  • The chorus in action
  • Generalizing about tragedy
  • Generalizing about the chorus
  • The language of tragedy and modernity : how Electra lost her piety
  • Antigone and the politics of sisterhood : the tragic language of sharing