Tragedy

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction. Leviticus, 16. St Matthew, 26, xxx-xxxv, xlviii-lxxv. Two English Ballads: “Edward”, “Sir Patric Spens.”
2	Aeschylus. The Orestia.
3	Sophocles. Antigone. Viewing to be arranged of Coppolla’s film*, The Godfather.*
4	Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
5	Euripides. Hippolytus.
6	Plato. The Apology of Socrates, Crito. Aristotle*. Poetics.*
7	Frye, Northrop. excerpt from Anatomy of Criticism. Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy, chap. 1-17.
8	Shakespeare. King Lear.
9	Shakespeare. King Lear. (continued)
10	Shakespeare. Macbeth.	First Paper Due (Six Pages)
11	Shakespeare. Macbeth. (continued)
12	Balzac. Père Goriot.
13	Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
14	Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
15	Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino.
16	Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino. (continued)
17	Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House.	Second Paper Due (Six Pages)
18	Ibsen, Henrick. A Doll’s House. (continued)
19	Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
20	Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (continued)
21	Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
22	Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (continued)
23	Dinesan, Isaak. “Sorrow-Acre.”
24	Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
25	Camus, Albert. The Stranger. (continued)
26	Levi, Primo. “The Gray Zone”, from The Drowned and the Saved.