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Does Tragedy Teach?

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Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches people, and if it does, how and what does it teach?

Date Published: 01 March 2010
Contributors:
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
In Collection(s): Questioning Genre
Keywords:
greek, literature, drama, theatre, shakespeare, aesthetics, philosophy, theory of emotion, Oedipus, Antigone, Medea, history of ideas, gender, hamartia, hubris, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Does Tragedy Teach? by Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/does-tragedy-teach. Published on 01 March 2010. Accessed on 01 July 2025.

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