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Subject(s)

• Greek drama (Tragedy)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Mythology, Greek, in literature [Browse]

Series

Routledge classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UKWhy did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectu

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Greek Tragedy:A literary study; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the Routledge ClassicsEdition Edith Hall; Preface; Note to the Third Edition; I: Lyrical Tragedy; II: Old Tragedy; III: The 'Oresteia'; IV: The Dramatic Art of Aeschylus; V: Middle Tragedy: Sophocles; VI: The Philosophy of Sophocles; VII: The Dramatic Art of Sophocles; VIII: The Euripidean Tragedy; IX: The Technique of the Euripidean Tragedy; X: The 'Trachiniae' and the 'Philoctetes'; XI: New Tragedy: Euripides' Tragi-comedies; XII: New Tragedy: Euripides' Melodramas; XIII: Two Last Plays; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-80689-X
• 1-283-10367-2
• 9786613103673
• 1-136-80690-3
• 0-203-82823-2

OCLC

• 764571875
• 727133644

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203828236

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