The early works, The Birth of Tragedy and the four Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen (1873; Untimely Meditations), are dominated by a Romantic perspective influenced by Schopenhauer and Wagner.
In his great work, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche contends that the origins of theatre are in the use of beauty and order to transform nihilism into something bearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a member of Wagner's inner circle during the early 1870s, and his first published work, The Birth of Tragedy, proposed Wagner's music as the Dionysian "rebirth" of European culture in opposition to Apollonian rationalist "decadence".
Yet the Athenians maintained their democracy and continued to produce great works of comedy and tragedy.
The fact that Mac sustains his newfound life with Rosa Lee and Sonny after his daughter's death, rather than reverting to his old pattern of alcoholism and abuse, is consistent with a recurring theme in Foote's works of characters overcoming tragedy and finding in it an opportunity for growth and maturation.
Among his other critical works are The Death of Tragedy (1961), In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (1971), On Difficulty and Other Essays (1978), Martin Heidegger (1979), Antigones (1984), and Real Presences (1989).
But behind the erratic behaviour and touchline antics is a very human story, with Di Canio having achieved all he has despite having to work against a backdrop of tragedy.
There was no planned transition from the intense work and bearing witness of tragedy in Kenema to all of a sudden being en route back to the United States.
The shows are the least creative works of drama, adventure and tragedy as compared with other television and movie productions.
Carson is writing specifically about Greek tragedy, works of tragic fiction, and of course a book like "Wave" is only too real.
