English Literature

Does tragedy invariably conform to a conservative perspective on gender relations, or can it work to bring these into question?

BOOKS (ONLY CHOSE 2 OUT OF 7. DO NOT USE MORE THAN TWO TEXTS) :

Sophocles, Antigone (in The Three Theban Plays)

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

William Shakespeare, King Lear

Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman