Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy

This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

Autorentext

Brian Arkins is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College, Dublin, where he obtained an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Latin. He is the author of ten books of criticism, including three on Latin poetry, and several on Reception Studies: Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats; Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce; Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature.

Inhalt
1 A Brief Reading of Greek Tragedy - 2 Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy: an Overview - 3 Sophocles' Antigone - 4 Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus - 5 Sophocles' Philoctetes - 6 Sophocles' Electra - 7 Euripides' Medea - 8 Euripides' Bacchae - 9 Euripides' Trojan Women and Hecuba - 10 Euripides' Hippolytus - 11 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis - 12 Aeschylus' Oresteia - 13 Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound