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Two things give Kittos classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English. - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK
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This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as:
* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?
* why did Sophocles develop character drawing?
* why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?
Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.
Two things give Kittos classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English. - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK
Product Description
This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as:
* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?
* why did Sophocles develop character drawing?
* why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?
Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.
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The first two editions of this book opened with the assertion that the Supplices is the earliest work of European drama. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Tragedy, Suppliant Women, Old Tragedy, New Tragedy, Trojan War, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Erinyes of Clytemnestra New!
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- Greek Tragedy (Drama Classic: Collections S.) by Sophocles on 45 pages
- Suppliant Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides on 20 pages
- Medea and Hippolytus by Sydney Waterlow on page 250, page 259, and page 379
- Greek Tragedy by John Tresidder Sheppard on page 34, and page 134
- The Iphigenia In Tauris by Euripides on page 311
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- Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society by Charles Segal on 8 pages
- Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 4) by Christopher Rocco on 4 pages
- A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies. Aeschylus (v. 1) by James C. Hogan on 4 pages
- Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Playwriting: The Structure of Action, Revised and Expanded Edition by Prof. Sam Smiley on page 155, page 171, and Back Matter
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