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MIT OpenCourseWare
Tragedy
- Instructor
- Prof. Alvin Kibel
- Term
- Fall 2002
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 8 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.422 Tragedy, Fall 2002, Prof. Alvin Kibel — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 26 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (7 items)
- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Readings
- Introduction. Leviticus, 16. St Matthew, 26, xxx-xxxv, xlviii-lxxv. Two English Ballads: “Edward”, “Sir Patric Spens.” Download
- Aeschylus. The Orestia. Download
- Sophocles. Antigone. Viewing to be arranged of Coppolla’s film, The Godfather. Download
- Plato. The Apology of Socrates, Crito. Aristotle. Poetics. Download
- Dinesen, Isaak. “Sorrow-Acre.” Download
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Aeschylus. The Orestia.
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Lecture 3: Sophocles. Antigone. Viewing to be arranged of Coppolla’s film*, The Godfather.*
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Lecture 4: Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
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Lecture 5: Euripides. Hippolytus.
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Lecture 6: Plato. The Apology of Socrates , Crito . Aristotle*. Poetics.*
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Lecture 7: Frye, Northrop. excerpt from Anatomy of Criticism . Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy , chap. 1-17.
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Lecture 8: Shakespeare. King Lear.
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Lecture 9: Shakespeare. King Lear. (continued)
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Lecture 10: Shakespeare. Macbeth.
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Lecture 11: Shakespeare. Macbeth. (continued)
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Lecture 12: Balzac. Père Goriot.
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Lecture 13: Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
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Lecture 14: Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
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Lecture 15: Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino.
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Lecture 16: Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino. (continued)
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Lecture 17: Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House.
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Lecture 18: Ibsen, Henrick. A Doll’s House. (continued)
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Lecture 19: Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
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Lecture 20: Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (continued)
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Lecture 21: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
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Lecture 22: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (continued)
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Lecture 23: Dinesan, Isaak. “Sorrow-Acre.”
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Lecture 24: Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
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Lecture 25: Camus, Albert. The Stranger. (continued)
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Lecture 26: Levi, Primo. “The Gray Zone”, from The Drowned and the Saved.
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Alvin Kibel, 21L.422 Tragedy, Fall 2002.
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