Greek tragedy : themes and contexts / Laura Swift.
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TextSeries: Classical world seriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2016Description: 144 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474236836 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Themes, motives | Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 882'.01'09 Summary: Offering an introduction to Greek tragedy, this book covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it focuses on the broader questions of what defines tragedy, what its particular preoccupations are, and what makes these texts so widely studied and performed more than 2,000 years after they were written.
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Offering an introduction to Greek tragedy, this book covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it focuses on the broader questions of what defines tragedy, what its particular preoccupations are, and what makes these texts so widely studied and performed more than 2,000 years after they were written.
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