Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study

ISBN-13: 9780415610193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 344 str.

HDF Kitto

Opis

'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 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. 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.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.