ENGLISH 280S · also THEATRST 267S
Tragedy
Douglas A. Jones
Description from DukeHub
Tragedy explores themes of justice, transgression, free will, family, gender, citizenship and civil society, and desire. This course will explore these themes in dramatic texts and films alongside tragic theory. We might read tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Racine, Shakespeare, Lillo, Schiller, Chekhov, Soyinka, Miller, and Harris as well as theoretical texts by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Dryden, Racine, Maeterlinck, Diderot, Williams, Miller, Soyinka, and Chan. The course will develop skills in close reading and critical interpretation through seminar discussion and an intensive writing schedule.
Skills
- writingdescription: "writing" and 2 more
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 14 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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