Sarah Annes Brown & Catherine Silverstone 
Tragedy in Transition [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Tragedy in Transition: Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia
Ruskin University).
1. Trojan Suffering, Tragic Gods and Transhistorical
Metaphysics: Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London).
2. Hardcore Tragedy: Ewan Fernie (Royal Holloway, University of
London).
3. Tragedy and Disgust: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Magdalen
College, University of Oxford).
4. Tragedy and the Sign of the Eclipse: Anne C. Henry
(University of Cambridge).
5. Jonson’s too Roman Plays: From Julius Caesar to Sejanus and
Catiline: John Henderson (King’s College, University of
Cambridge).
6. Neoclassicisms: Raphael Lyne (New Hall, University of
Cambridge).
7. Tragedy and Exile: Jennifer Wallace (Peterhouse, University
of Cambridge).
8. Narratives of Tragic Empathy: Prometheus Bound and
Frankenstein: Vanda Zajko (Bristol University).
9. Tragedy and Childhood: Peter Hollindale (formerly of
University of York).
10. Parricide versus Filicide: Oedipus and Medea on the Modern
Stage: Fiona Macintosh (St Cross College, University of
Oxford).
11. ’Suffering into Wisdom’: The Tragedy of Wilde: Alison
Hennegan (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).
12. Tarzan of Athens: Wilson Knight and Wole Soyinka: Neil
Rhodes (University of St Andrews).
13. Postmodern Tragedy?: Returning to John Ford: Mark Houlahan
(University of Waikato, New Zealand).
14. Tragedy and the Future: Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin
University).
Afterword: Ending Tragedy: Catherine Silverstone (Anglia Ruskin
University).
Index

Sarah Annes Brown is Chair of the Department of English,
Communication, Film, and Media at Anglia Ruskin University. In
addition to numerous short pieces on various aspects of classical
reception, her publications include The Metamorphosis of Ovid:
From Chaucer to Ted Hughes, Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis, and
Nicholas Rowe’s translation of Lucan’s
Pharsalia, which she co-edited with Charles Martindale. She is
currently writing a book about transhistoricism.
Catherine Silverstone is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and
Performance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She has
written several articles on Shakespeare and performance. She is
currently writing a book entitled Shakespeare and Trauma:
Contemporary Performances on Stage and Screen.