Eight Great Tragedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great

Eight Great Tragedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great Tragedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century

Presenting the complete texts of eight of the worldâ€™s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to Oâ€™Neill.
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Some of the worldâ€™s greatest dramas unfold on these pages. In the powerful and famous plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, Oedipus makes his disastrous marriage, Prometheus struggles against Zeus to break his painful chains, and the Love Goddess, Aphrodite, takes her revenge on the Theban prince who slighted her. Shakespeareâ€™s King Lear suffers at the hands of his two evil daughters. The great Scandinavian dramatists Ibsen and Strindberg fearlessly present stories of infidelity and social disease, while Desire under the Elms, Eugene Oâ€™Neillâ€™s savage picture of primitive desires in modern New England, rounds out this excellent anthology. Including important essays by noteworthy critics and philosophers, this book is an ideal companion to the editorsâ€™ Eight Great Comedies (also available in a Meridian edition).
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Featured Plays:
Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Hippolytus (Euripedes)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen)
Miss Julie (August Strindberg)
On Baileâ€™s Strand (William Butler Yeats)
Desire under the Elms (Eugene Oâ€™Neill)
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Also includes essays by Aristotle, Hume, Emerson, Tillyard, Richards, and Krutch.
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1996-11-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452011724

Country	USA
Brand	Plume
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1996-11-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780452011724

Eight Great Tragedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great Tragedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century

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