Against the Dramaturgy of Punishment: From the Greeks to The Normal Heart
By Andy Boyd. Tragedy arises not because of one character's flaw, but because of the irresolvable clash of mutually exclusive value systems: family loyalty clashes with patriotism, sexual gratification clashes with social order, or friendship clashes with the realities of war.… The power of the great Greek tragedies, and the great tragedies of our age, is to be found in their unwillingness to dogmatically assert on…