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PART ONE (9-50) HEGEL'S INFLUENCE AND REPUTATION; THE AESTHETICS CHAPTER 1 DIALECTICAL INVERSIONS: HEGEL'S INFLUENCE AND REPUTATION (Henry Paolucci) 11 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION TO HEGEL'S AESTHETICS (Henry Paolucci) 28 Aristotle and Hegel 28 Italian Humanism, the German Reformation, and the "Moderns" 28 The Rationalist Rejection of History and the Romantic Rejection of that Rejection 30 Hegel's Comprehensive Aesthetic and Theory of Literature 33 Hegel's Theory of Tragedy 43 PART TWO (51-96) COMEDY, SOCIAL DRAMA, VERSE DRAMA CHAPTER 3 HEGEL'S THEORY OF COMEDY (Anne Paolucci) 53 The Place of Comedy in the Hegelian System 55 Aesthetic Irony and the Comical 59 The Personae of Ancient and Modern Comedy 61 Tragedy, Comedy, and the "End" of Art 68 CHAPTER 4 SOCIAL DRAMA AS HEIR OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY; THEATER OF THE ABSURD AND THE BREAK WITH THE PAST (Anne Paolucci Henry Paolucci) 74 CHAPTER 5 VERSE DRAMA: THE BURDEN OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN MODEL, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE 'BECKETS' OF TENNYSON AND T. S. ELIOT (Henry Paolucci) 83 PART THREE (97-200) SHAKESPEARE CHAPTER 6 BRADLEY AND HEGEL ON SHAKESPEARE (Anne Paolucci) 99 CHAPTER 7 SHAKESPEARE REVISITED: HEGEL, A. C. BRADLEY, T. S. ELIOT (Anne Paolucci) 116 CHAPTER 8 MACBETHAND OEDIPUS REX: A STUDY IN PARADOX (Anne Paolucci) 143 CHAPTER 9 MIRRORED USURPATION: HAMLET'S TRAGIC BURDEN (Henry Paolucci) 165 CHAPTER 10 MARX, MONEY, AND SHAKESPEARE: THE HEGELIAN CORE IN MARXIST SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM (Anne Paolucci) 179 Socialist-Realism and Shakespearean Humanism 179 The Marxist "Locus Classicus": Timon's Gold 184 From Misanthropy Back to Hegel 193 PART FOUR (201-246) DRAMA'S REDEMPTION OF THE ABSURD CHAPTER 11 FROM THE TITAN OF AESCHYLUS TO ALBEE'S TINYALICE (Anne Paolucci Henry Paolucci) 203 CHAPTER 12 AVANT-GARDE ANTICIPATION OF THE ABSURD (Henry Paolucci) 223 CHAPTER 13 SHAKESPEARE AND THE GENIUS OF THE ABSURD (Anne Paolucci) 232 PART FIVE (247-336) "THEATER OF THE ABSURD" CHAPTER 14 ShakesPEARE'S HAMLET AND PIRANDELLO'S ENRICO IV (Anne Paolucci) 249 CHAPTER 15 COMEDY AND PARADOX IN PIRANDELLO'S PLAYS (Anne Paolucci) 258 CHAPTER 16 PIRANDELLO AND THE WAITING STAGE OF THE ABSURD (WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON A NEW 'CRITICAL LANGUAGE') (Anne Paolucci) 280 CHAPTER 17 ALBEE AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE MODERN STAGE (Anne Paolucci) 293 Hamlet and the "Artistic Failure" of the Absurd 294 Albee's Kaleidoscopic Technique 301 Albee's "New Realism": A Delicate Balance 306 CHAPTER 18 ALBEE ON THE PRECIPITOUS HEIGHTS (Two ARMS ARE NOT ENOUGH!) (Anne Paolucci) 314 PART SIX (337-384) SOPHOCLES, DANTE, ARTHUR MILLER CHAPTER 19 THE ORACLES ARE DUMB OR CHEAT: A STUDY OF THE MEANING OF OEDIPUS REX (Anne Paolucci) 339 CHAPTER 20 ART AND NATURE IN DANTE'S PURGATORIO (Anne Paolucci) 350 CHAPTER 21 Arthur MILLER;S DEATH OFA SALESMAN: THE TRAGIC HERO REDEFINED (Anne Paolucci) 366 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 385