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Euripides : Trojan Women.
Set at the end of the Trojan war, ""Euripides' Trojan Women"" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the cons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Set at the end of the Trojan war, ""Euripides' Trojan Women"" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to the pitiful death of the child Astyanax, who is thrown from the walls of his ravaged city. Barbara Goff sets the play in its historical, dramatic and literary contexts, and provides a scene-by-scene analysis which brings |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472521217 1472521218 9781472539809 147253980X 9780715635452 071563545X 9781472521224 1472521226 |