Eight Great Tragedies
The Complete Texts of the World's Great Tragedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century
$38.99
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1996
Summary
Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O’Neill. Some of the world’s greatest dramas unfold on these pages. In the powerful and famous plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, Oedipus makes his disastrous marriage, Prometheus struggles against Zeus to break his painful chains, and the Love Goddess, Aphrodite, takes her revenge on the Theban prince who slighted her. Shakespea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452011724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452011728 |
| Author: | Sylvan Barnet |
| Publisher: | Plume Books |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 136mm x 204mm |
| Audience Age: | 18-17 |
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Sylvan Barnet
Sylvan Barnet wrote numerous texts analyzing the works of Shakespeare as well as the writing craft. He was the general editor for Signet Classics Shakespeare as well as professor emeritus at Tufts University. He died in 2016. Morton Berman is professor emeritus of English as Boston University.
William Burto served as the chair of the Department of English as Lowell State College, which became University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He wrote several texts focusing on the poetry of Shakespeare. He died in 2013.
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