Aeschylus :: Prometheus bound /

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces i...

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1. Verfasser: Ruffell, Ian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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Zusammenfassung:Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its i.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-168) and index.
ISBN:9781472502490
1472502493
9781472539588
1472539583
9781472502506
1472502507

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