SOURCE: “The ‘Dark Problem’ of Greek Tragedy: Sublimated Violence in De Quincey,” in The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 114-20.
In the following essay, Rzepka contends that De Quincey's portraits of violence are deeply influenced by his reading of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy.
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