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Hardcover Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire Book

ISBN: 9004467017

ISBN13: 9789004467019

Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire

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...

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