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Wright Dr Matthew - The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Aeschylus Sophocles And Euripides - Paperback
Wright Dr Matthew - The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Aeschylus Sophocles And Euripides - Paperback
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Description: The surviving works of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best - known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for reading lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors or of Greek tragedy as a whole if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time.
Title: The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Aeschylus Sophocles And Euripides
Author(s): Wright Dr Matthew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781474276474
Pages: 322 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
Description: The surviving works of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best - known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for reading lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors or of Greek tragedy as a whole if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time.
Title: The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Aeschylus Sophocles And Euripides
Author(s): Wright Dr Matthew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781474276474
Pages: 322 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
