How and why does tragedy matter? This book approaches the question through a close reading of Greek tragedies that is designed both for readers with Greek and those with none. It tackles the imaginative distance between the Greek plays and the modern reader by exploring them alongside three of Shakespeare's tragedies, "Macbeth", "Hamlet" and "King Lear", which put into bold relief, and allow us a better appreciation of, the compelling energies that are central to Greek tragedy.
- ISBN10 0631151923
- ISBN13 9780631151920
- Publish Date 12 February 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 February 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English