Format:
xxxcvi, 341 Seiten
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Karten
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9780199286232
Content:
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, influencing a vast array of artists and thinkers over the centuries. Disturbing and unrelenting, his tragedies portray what Matthew Arnold referred to as 'the turbid ebb and flow of human misery', allowing the audience to stand on the verge of the abyss and confront the waste and disorder of human existence. The heroic myths reinterpreted in the plays locate them within a world in which theextremes of human emotion in its darkest hours can be freely explored. It is, however, the creativity of Sophocles' plays which prevents them f
Note:
Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt 4 Werke
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Oedipus the King -- Aias -- Philoctetes -- Oedipus at Colonus.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780191053542
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Sophocles Four tragedies Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780191849886
Additional Edition:
ISBN 019184988X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0191053546
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780191053542
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Taplin, Oliver, 1943 - Oedipus the King Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780199286232
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Übersetzung
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Englisch
Author information:
Sophocles
