Title: Greek tragedy, a literary study
Description: CONTENTS: Lyrical tragedy. The supplices -- The supplices and pre-Aeschylean tragedy -- Old tragedy. Introduction -- The Persae -- The Septem -- The 'Prometheus vinctus -- The Oresteia. The Agamemnon -- The Choephori -- The Eumenides -- The dramatic art of Aeschylus -- Middle tragedy: Sophocles. Introduction -- The Ajax -- The Antigone -- The Electra -- The Oedipus tyrannus -- The philosophy of Sophocles -- The dramatic art of Sophocles. The third actor -- The chorus -- Structural principles -- The Euripidean tragedy. Introduction -- The Medea -- The Hippolytus -- The Troades -- The Hecuba -- The suppliant women -- The Aandromache -- The  Heracles -- The technique of the Euripidean tragedy. Introduction -- Characterization -- The chorus -- Rhetoric and dialectic -- Dramatic surprise and ornament -- Prologues and epilogues -- The Trachiniae and Philoctetes. The Trachiniae -- The Philoctetes -- New tragedy: Euripides' tragi-comedies -- New tragedy: Euripides' melodramas. The Electra -- The chorus in new tragedy -- The Orestes -- The Phoenissae -- The Iphigeneia in Aulis -- Two last plays. The Bacchae -- The Oedipus Coloneus.
Subjects: History and criticism, Greek drama (Tragedy), Mythology, Greek, in literature, Greek drama, history and criticism