
Sophocles
By
Edith Hall
Read by
Mary Jane Wells
Release:
03/18/2025
Release:
03/18/2025
Release:
03/18/2025
Runtime:
4h 25m
Runtime:
4h 25m
Runtime:
4h 25m
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This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.
Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century.
Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century.
Release:
2025-03-18
2025-03-18
2025-03-18
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
4h 25m
4h 25m
4h 25m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.45 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9798855561487
9798228552487
9798228552494
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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