Ten Plays by Euripides
Synopsis
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
- Derechos de autor:
- 1950 The Liberal Arts Press, Inc.
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307830463
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 2021-05-11T19:52:11Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.