Aeschylus Prometheus bound I.A. Ruffell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruffell, Isabel, author.

Series:

Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.

Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeschylus. Prometheus bound--Criticism and interpretation.

Aeschylus.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, PrometheusBound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age

Contents:

Preface

Themes, Contexts and Receptions

Gods and Other Monsters

Technology and Civilisation

Making a Spectacle

The Radical Tradition

Timeline

Abbreviations and Select Bibliography

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472539588

1472539583

9781472502490

1472502493

OCLC:

820011188