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The Tragedies of Sophocles (Paperback)
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The Tragedies of Sophocles (Paperback)
Series: Greece and Rome Live
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This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven
plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra,
Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay
that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final
chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work.
confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a
supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only
alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.
re-interpreted by later generations) deals with Milton's Samson
Agonistes, the first Cambridge Greek play (Ajax), the
Strauss/Hofmannsthal opera Elektra, Anouilh's Antigone, Pasolini's
film Edipo Re, Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy (Philoctetes) and
Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender (Women of Trachis). critical survey
of modern approaches to Greek tragedy. It focuses on reception of
Sophoclean tragedy through the ages - a key concern of modern
classical studies courses.
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