Vol. 26 European Tragedy from Homer to Beckett. Nine Essays and an Interview edited by John Davidson and Hansgerd Delbrück. Dunedin 2011. 262 pp. ISBN 978-0-9582716-6-0. NZ$ 35.00

Tragedies discussed in this volume include:

Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, Racine’s Phèdre, Kleist’s Penthesilea, Ostrovsky’s Thunder and Pirandello’s Henry IV.

Plays with significant links to tragedy are:

Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris, Grillparzer’s Woe to him who lies!, Hauptmann’s The Weavers, Ibsen’s The Master Builder, Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.