H.D.F. Kitto

Greek Tragedy

Mitarbeit: Hall, Edith

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

H.D.F Kitto's acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, first published in 1936 is now available for the first time in Routledge Classics. This edition includes a new foreword by Edith Hall.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: Y113611
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610193
• ISBN-10: 0415610192
• Artikelnr.: 31303542

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK