Substitute your author and see what results are retrieved. Provides a background of social and literary influences. The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales. The themes of romance, comedy and pathos are explored. A View from the Bridge, After the Fall and Incident at Vichy, and The Price and The Creation of the World are included.
Opposing viewpoints are present.
The book is useful for any new student approaching Milton's work. Harvard Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric Whitman presents his ideas on the tragic Greek hero. Five essays are presented from lectures previously given by Whitman. The characters of Homer, Sophocles and Aristophanes are the topic of discussion. Sophocles's life and times are contained with commentaries on the seven surviving plays.