Greek Tragedy

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

    Providing a thorough examination of ancient performance practices, and including detailed readings of selected plays, this text explores tragedy’s ideology and effects, illuminating the reasons why Greek tragedy continues to be a subject ...

  • Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun
    Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun
    By Edith Hall

    L. Edmunds, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (Lanham, Md., 1996). B. Johnston, 'The metamorphoses of Theseus in Oedipus at Colonus', Comparative Drama 27 B (1993), 271–85.

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus

    Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

  • Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts
    Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts
    By Laura Swift

    The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level.

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By H.D.F. Kitto

    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.

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus

    Three masterpieces of classical tragedy Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect...

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By H. D. F. Kitto

    Neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism, this classic text not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By Thomas Gould, C. J. Herington

    286, rightly points out the contrast between the flame of the pyre and 'cette autre flamme du desir, de la luxure qui l'a brule pendant toute sa vie', but he gives that contrast an irrelevant and misleading turn: ' Apres la flamme de ...

  • Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun
    Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun
    By Edith Hall

    Euripides, Women, and Sexuality (London and New York, 1990), 16–31. children of heracles: commentaries William Allan, Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Warminster, 2001; includes translation). John Wilkins, Euripides' Heraclidae ...

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By H. D. F. Kitto

    This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.

  • Greek Tragedy: An Introduction
    Greek Tragedy: An Introduction
    By Bernhard Zimmermann

    "Nothing available in English can compare with this book as a brief, well-balanced, and authoritative introduction."--C. John Herington, Yale University.

  • Greek Tragedy
    Greek Tragedy
    By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

    Providing a thorough examination of ancient performance practices, and including detailed readings of selected plays, this text explores tragedy’s ideology and effects, illuminating the reasons why Greek tragedy continues to be a subject ...