Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun

Author:   Edith Hall (Research Professor in Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199232512


Pages:   430
Publication Date:   21 January 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun


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Author:   Edith Hall (Research Professor in Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.731kg
ISBN:  

9780199232512


ISBN 10:   0199232512
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   21 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: What is Greek Tragedy? 1: Play Makers 2: Community Identities 3: Confrontations 4: Minds 5: Aeschylean Drama 6: Euripidean Drama 7: Sophoclean Drama Postscript: Greek Tragedy and Greek Tragic Fragments Today

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Easily accessible to undergraduates and general readers , but even specialists will find many surprising new angles on the material, as well as cogent formulations of well-known themes. Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement


Easily accessible to undergraduates and ""general readers"", but even specialists will find many surprising new angles on the material, as well as cogent formulations of well-known themes. * Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement *


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After holding posts at the universities of Cambridge, Reading, Oxford, and Durham, Edith Hall took up a Research Chair in Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2006, where she directs the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director, with Oliver Taplin, of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at the University of Oxford, and Chairs the Gilbert Murray Trust. Besides regularly acting as consultant on professional productions of ancient Greek drama, she has contributed to numerous radio and television programmes on ancient Greece and Rome and their legacies in the modern world.

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