Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy
- ISBN-10
- 1408117827
- ISBN-13
- 9781408117828
- Category
- Comparative literature
- Pages
- 431
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- J. Michael Walton
Description
New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics. That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and.
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