Publisher's Synopsis
This study provides an extensive examination of the use made of irony in Grillparzer's tragedies. It analyses Grillparzer's frequent exploitation of ironic effects both in the arrangement of the plots of his tragedies and in the presentation of dramatic episodes and individual characters. It demonstrates that an appreciation of the sense of irony present in Grillparzer's plays is fundamental to an understanding of his dramatic style, of the prevailing atmosphere of his tragedies and of his own attitude to the human situation.
