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Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0715631764
ISBN13: 9780715631768
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 26 2004
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult last decades of the fifth century.

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