The politics and poetics of contemporary English tragedy

David Hare: the work of mourning, or, the agony and the ecstasy of the bourgeoisie

Howard Barker: will and desire

from the tragedy of socialism to the ecstasy of the unconscious

Edward Bond: tragedy and postmodernity, or, the Promethean impulse

Caryl Churchill: the Dionysian Möbius strip

New English tragedians: the tragedy of the tragic.