Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy

by Marianne McDonald

New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics

That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413771423
• ISBN13: 9780413771421
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.6"