Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

by H.D.F. Kitto
Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

by H.D.F. Kitto

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Overview

Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics.

Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto’s words ‘We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.’ Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus’s ‘Oresteia’, the plays of Sophocles including ‘Antigone’ and ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’; and Euripides’s ‘Medea’ and ‘Hecuba’, Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136806896
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/01/2011
Series: Routledge Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

H.D.F. Kitto (1897 – 1982) was a renowned British classical scholar. He lectured at the University of Glasgow from 1920-1944 before becoming Professor of Greek at Bristol University, where he taught until 1962.

Table of Contents

Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface Note to the Third Edition 1. Lyrical Tragedy 2. Old Tragedy 3. The Oresteia 4. The Dramatic Art of Aeschylus 5. Middle Tragedy: Sophocles 6. The Philosophy of Sophocles 7. The Dramatic Art of Sophocles 8. The Euripidean Tragedy 9. The Technique of the Euripidean Tragedy 10. The ‘Trachiniae’ and ‘Philoctetes’ 11. The New Tragedy: ‘Euripides’ Tragi-Comedies
12. New Tragedy: Euripides’ Melodramas 13. Two Last Plays Index

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