Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays

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As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war. The greatest of the early playwrights wrote from experience--Aeschylus and Sophocles were generals in the Athenian army, and Euripides was a combat veteran. Electronic media reports war instantly, but the stage provides an unrivaled venue for facing the horror of armed conflict on a human scale.This timely anthology...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810127326

ISBN13:9780810127326

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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