Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
|
Buy Now
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (Paperback)
Loot Price: R765
Discovery Miles 7 650
|
|
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been
familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works
are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors
wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of
which are utterly fascinating. In this, the second volume of a
major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an
authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three
best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work
are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn
about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from
fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop
strategies or methodologies for 'reading' lost plays? Why were
certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared
from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of
these classic authors - or of Greek tragedy as a whole - if a
different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such
questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their
historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly
developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of
Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first
time.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.