Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

• An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study
• Examines tragedy's relationship to democracy, religion, and myth
• Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory
• Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices
• Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781405121613

About the Author
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides' Alcestis.