TY - JOUR AU - Brennan, Katie PY - 2014/03/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Nietzsche's Shakespeare: Musicality and Historicity in The Birth of Tragedy JF - Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies JA - MDS VL - IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_di_shakespeare/article/view/11788 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Nietzsche was deeply interested in Shakespeare during the period leading </span><span>up to the publication of </span><em>The Birth of Tragedy</em><span>. His notebooks from this period </span><span>clearly indicate that throughout the planning stages of </span><span>The Birth of Tragedy</span><span>, </span><span>Nietzsche had intended to devote an entire chapter to Shakespeare, in which </span><span>Shakespeare was to serve as a bridge between the spirit of the great ancient </span><span>Greek playwrights and Wagner. In this paper I discuss why, despite the ab</span><span>sence of a detailed account of Shakespeare in the final version of&nbsp;</span><em>The Birth of Tragedy</em><span>, he is nonetheless essential to Nietzsche&rsquo;s theory of tragedy. </span></p> <p><span><strong>Keywords</strong>: </span><span>Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Tragedy, Aesthetics, </span><span>Hamlet&nbsp;</span></p></div></div></div> ER -