Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and EuripidesUsing 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 Aeschylus typically shaped these sprawling stories into dramatic form. Then, 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Theoretical aspects | 9 |
Narrative time in tragedy | 21 |
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Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides Barbara Goward No preview available - 2004 |
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actantial action Aegisthus Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax ambiguous Antigone Aphrodite Apollo audience Bacchae Cassandra characters Choephoroe choral chorus Chrysothemis Clytemnestra communication complex create Creusa death deceit Deianeira developed dialogue Dionysus discussion disguise divine doloi dolos drama dream earlier Easterling effect Electra elements emotional entry Eteocles Euripidean Euripides example fact False Merchant fate focalisation fulfilment function future gives gods Helen Heracles hero Hippolytus Homer human Hyllus iambic trimeter Io's Iphigeneia in Tauris Lichas loop lyric Menelaus message narrative messenger speech mêtis murder narrative strategy narrator Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus offstage onstage opening oracle Orestes outcome Paedagogus Pentheus Persians Phaedra Philoctetes play plot poet prediction present proleptic narrative prologue Prometheus prophecy Pylades recognition reference revenge rhêsis role scene seems sense Septem sequence Sophocles stage figures stichomythia story structure suspense Tecmessa tells temporal Theban Theseus tion Trach Trachiniae traditional tragedy tragic trilogy trimeter Troy Zeus