Telling tragedy : narrative technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides / Barbara Goward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goward, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeschylus.

Euripides.

Sophocles.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Narrative theory and tragedy

pt. 2. Aeschylus

pt. 3. Sophocles

pt. 4. Euripides.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472540218

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.