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Greek Tragedy (Hardcover): H.D.F. Kitto

Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)

H.D.F. Kitto; Foreword by Edith Hall

Series: Routledge Classics

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Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto's words 'We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.' Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus's 'Oresteia', the plays of Sophocles including 'Antigone' and 'Oedipus Tyrannus'; and Euripides's 'Medea' and 'Hecuba', Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Classics
Release date: May 2015
First published: 2011
Authors: H.D.F. Kitto
Foreword by: Edith Hall
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-83478-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 1-138-83478-5
Barcode: 9781138834781

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