Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (USA Hamilton College)

Broschiertes Buch

Greek Tragedy

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781405121613
• ISBN-10: 1405121610
• Artikelnr.: 22748625

Rezensionen

"Engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, ... GreekTragedy is written in an informal, appealing style ....Rabinowitz is able to lead the reader quickly to the centralissues of a play, often with reference to key terms or ideasalready brought up in the 'context' chapters, and thento explore those ideas as pairs of irreconcilables in a wayconsistent with her overall emphasis on the ambivalences,ambiguities, and unresolved problems tragedy poses to ancient andmodern audiences alike." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review,December 2008)

"As a supplement ... [it's] a vein of gold. [Theauthor's] nuanced familiarity with every aspect of the topicof Greek drama is breath-taking." (About.com)
"A new approach to a popular subject offering readings ofsome of the best-known Attic tragedies in both their ancient andmodern contexts. The author's application of contemporary debatesand issues to the ancient material is refreshing and stimulating.This book has much to offer."
-Fiona McHardy, Roehampton University