Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc, 2025
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 25 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798855561494 MWT17948242, 17948242
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Mary Jane Wells
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features-tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century
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