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Nietzsche's Shakespeare: Musicality and Historicity in The Birth of Tragedy

Katie Brennan

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Nietzsche was deeply interested in Shakespeare during the period leading up to the publication of The Birth of Tragedy . His notebooks from this period clearly indicate that throughout the planning stages of The Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche had intended to devote an entire chapter to Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare was to serve as a bridge between the spirit of the great ancient Greek playwrights and Wagner. In this paper I discuss why, despite the ab sence of a detailed account of Shakespeare in the final version of  The Birth of Tragedy , he is nonetheless essential to Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy. Keywords : Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Tragedy, Aesthetics, Hamlet

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Nietzsche was deeply interested in Shakespeare during the period leading up to the publication of The Birth of Tragedy . His notebooks from this period clearly indicate that throughout the planning stages of The Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche had intended to devote an entire chapter to Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare was to serve as a bridge between the spirit of the great ancient Greek playwrights and Wagner. In this paper I discuss why, despite the ab sence of a detailed account of Shakespeare in the final version of  The Birth of Tragedy , he is nonetheless essential to Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy. Keywords : Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Tragedy, Aesthetics, Hamlet

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Nietzsche was deeply interested in Shakespeare during the period leading up to the publication of The Birth of Tragedy . His notebooks from this period clearly indicate that throughout the planning stages of The Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche had intended to devote an entire chapter to Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare was to serve as a bridge between the spirit of the great ancient Greek playwrights and Wagner. In this paper I discuss why, despite the ab sence of a detailed account of Shakespeare in the final version of  The Birth of Tragedy , he is nonetheless essential to Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy. Keywords : Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Tragedy, Aesthetics, Hamlet

Key concepts: Tragedy (event), HAMLET (protein complex), Historicity (philosophy), Literature, Philosophy, Period (music), History, Art

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