Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 52 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesClassicsLiteratureBritish LiteratureGreek LiteratureRitual StudiesAncient Performance TraditionsEuropean CultureEuropean LiteratureHistorical DramaturgyMedieval Performance TraditionsSacrificial RitualsComparative SacrificeHuman SacrificePerformative RitualSacrifice RitualsSacrificial DeathSacrificial EconomySacrificial TextsTragic Sacrifice
1. Human sacrifice, ancient and modern 2. Greece 3. Virgil to Augustine 4. The discovery of America 5. Shakespeare and the economics of sacrifice 6. Britain and America: Dryden, Behn, and Defoe 7. Lieto Fine: Baroque and Enlightenment sacrifice 8. The French Revolution to Napoleon 9. The secularization of sacrifice 10. Gothic sacrifice 11. Wagner 12. The second coming of Dionysius 13. Pentheus 1913 14. Sparagmos 15. Hitler and after Bibliography.