Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback
by Adrian Poole
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Availability:In StockContributor:Adrian PooleSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:10/20/2005Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192802354ISBN-10:192802356UPC:9780192802354Book Category:Literary Criticism, Non-ClassifiableBook Subcategory:Drama, Non-Classifiable, Ancient and ClassicalSize:6.92 x 4.40 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCF1EA2FW6
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment block, the horrors of a natural disaster, or atrocities occurring in distant lands. To a classicist however, the word brings to mind the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Racine; beautiful dramas featuring romanticized torment. What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists,...
Series: Very Short Introductions
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192802354ISBN-10:192802356UPC:9780192802354Book Category:Literary Criticism, Non-ClassifiableBook Subcategory:Drama, Non-Classifiable, Ancient and ClassicalSize:6.92 x 4.40 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCF1EA2FW6
Adrian Poole is Reader in English & Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written and lectured on Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, on literary translation and on nineteenth-century English literature. His publications include Gissing in Context (1975), Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Shakespeare and the Victorians...
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