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By Paul Hammond

ISBN-10: 0199572607

ISBN-13: 9780199572601

This ebook reads tragedy as a style within which the protagonist is estranged from the realm round him, and, displaced in time, house, and language, involves inhabit a milieu that's not shared by way of different characters. This alienation from others additionally involves a decomposition of the integrity of the person, that's frequently noticeable in tragedy's uncertainty in regards to the protagonists' autonomy: do they act, or do the gods act via them? the place are the limits of the
self, and the limits of the human? After an introductory essay exploring the theatrical and linguistic potential through which the protagonist is made to inhabit a wierd and singular international, the e-book devotes essays to performs from classical, renaissance, and neo-classical literature by way of Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and Racine. shut recognition is paid to the linguistic strangeness of the texts that's usually smoothed over through editors and translators, because it is thru the weirdness of tragic language that the deep estrangement of the characters is proven. for this reason, the Greek, Latin, and French texts are quoted within the originals, with translations further, and a spotlight is paid to textual cruces which illustrate the linguistic and conceptual problems of these
plays.

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This booklet reads tragedy as a style during which the protagonist is estranged from the realm round him, and, displaced in time, house, and language, involves inhabit a milieu that is not shared by way of different characters. This alienation from others additionally involves a decomposition of the integrity of the person, that's frequently obvious in tragedy's uncertainty in regards to the protagonists' autonomy: do they act, or do the gods act via them?

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