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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy


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About the Book

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.


  • An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study
  • Examines tragedy's relationship to democracy, religion, and myth
  • Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory
  • Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices
  • Includes detailed readings of selected plays

About the Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides' Alcestis.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405121606
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-blackwell
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1405121602
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Series Title: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
  • Weight: 503 gr


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