Aeschylean tragedy

Aeschylean tragedy

by Sommerstein, Alan H.

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Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his Aeschylean Tragedy, Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus' poetic, dramatic, theatrical and musical techniques, his social, political and religio…

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  • Full title :Aeschylean tragedy / Alan H. Sommerstein.

Summary

Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his Aeschylean Tragedy, Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus' poetic, dramatic, theatrical and musical techniques, his social, political and religious ideas, and the significance of his drama for our own day. Special attention is paid to the Oresteia trilogy, and the other surviving plays are viewed against the background of the four-play productions of which they formed part. There are chapters on Aeschylus' theatre, on his satyr-dramas, and on his dramatisations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and a detailed chapter-by-chapter guide to further reading. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all texts are quoted in translation --Book Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.
  • Edition:2nd ed., [completely rev. and updated ed.]

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Duckworth
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

Notes

Previous edition: Bari : Levante, 1996.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 384 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780715638248, 0715638246
  • oclc:ocn645674252
  • LC Classification:PA3829
  • Dewey Decimal:882.01

Subjects

Aeschylus Aischylos Criticism, interpretation, etc Eschyle - tragédie Mythologie grecque dans la littérature Mythology, Greek, in literature Tragédie -- Histoire et critique Tragedy Tragedy -- History and criticism Tragödie

Writers

Sommerstein, Alan H.

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