Greek Tragedy by Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

Greek Tragedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405121613)

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Greek Tragedy by Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

Greek Tragedy

$51.95
Greek Tragedy by Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

Greek Tragedy

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

  • An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study
  • Examines tragedy's relationship to democracy, religion, and myth
  • Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory
  • Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices
  • Includes detailed readings of selected plays


Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
ISBN-10: 1405121610
ISBN-13: 9781405121613
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d
By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides' Alcestis.

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