Form and Meaning in Drama

Analysing six Greek tragedies and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. An important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.

Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes - and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. This is an important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.

Autorentext

H. D. F. Kitto

Klappentext

Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes - and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. This is an important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.

Zusammenfassung
Analysing six Greek tragedies and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. An important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.

Inhalt

1. Agamemnon 2. Choephori 3. Eumenides 4. Philoctetes 5. Antigone 6. Ajax 7. Greek and Elizabethan Tragedy 8. Religious Drama and its Interpretation 9. Hamlet 9.1 The Problem of Hamlet 9.2 Hamlet and the Oedipus 9.3 The First Six Scenes 9.4 Hamlet and Laertes 9.5. Hamlet and Ophelia 9.6. Hamlet and his Madness 9.7. The Players 9.8. Hamlet and Claudius 9.9 Providence 9.10. Conclusion