Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire

by University of Leeds and by Paul Hammond

Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself.

The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004467017
• ISBN13: 9789004467019
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 388 Pages