The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

Book Overview

As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521423511
• ISBN13: 9780521423519
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"