Telling Tragedy
Subtitle: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: February 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780715631768
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Poetry
First sentence: Narrative theory views any text very simply as a communication between a narrator and a narratee.
Description: "Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult last decades of the fifth century."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult last decades of the fifth century