Telling Tragedy

Barbara Goward

earliest edition we have, 1998 Duckworth Publishing, 2003 hardcover 224 pages

"Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recr...

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Telling Tragedy paperback · 2004 · Duckworth Publishers · 224 pages · 9780715631768
Telling Tragedy hardcover · 2003 · Duckworth Publishing · 224 pages
Telling Tragedy edition · 1998 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9780715625958

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