The Strangeness of Tragedy

By Paul Hammond

Release : 2009-09-17

Genre : Theater, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Kind : ebook

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This book explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine.

The Strangeness of Tragedy

By Paul Hammond

Release : 2009-09-17

Genre : Theater, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
This book explores the theatrical and linguistic means by which the tragic protagonist is estranged from other characters and comes to occupy a singular world in which the autonomy of the individual seems uncertain, discussing plays from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine.

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