Sophocles (9781108706094)
Paperback 134 pages English December 19, 2019
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Produced in Athens during the fifth century BC, the tragedies of Sophocles are a high point in world literature, vividly depicting unforgettable characters confronted with emotional crises, moral dilemmas, and the inscrutable ways of the gods. This volume examines Sophocles' reputation as a dramatic poet both in his own day and later in antiquity, considering how it was that some of his plays survived from his time to ours. It investigates the qualities of those plays, focusing on key aspects of Sophoclean dramaturgy such as stagecraft, narrative, rhetoric, and heroism. And it incorporates within its discussion not just the seven plays that survive in full, but those major fragments discovered in recent years which shed so much light on Sophocles' extraordinary ability as a poet and a dramatist. All Greek is translated, making this volume accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
- Author:
- P. J. Finglass
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- December 19, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 134 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1108706096
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108706094