Looking at Ajax
Ajax is perhaps the earliest of Sophocles' tragedies, yet the issues at its heart remain profoundly resonant today. Set in the Greek encampment during the siege of Troy, it traces not just the story of a respected war hero's mental breakdown but (like Sophocles' Antigone) the treatment of an enemy's remains and the management of his memory. Pitting the fate of the individual against not just his own community but the cosmic world of the divine, it explores questions of loyalty and power, compassion and control, integrity and political expediency - and ultimately what it is to be human. In Antiquity the fate of Ajax fascinated writers and arti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-07232-9
- EAN: 9781350072329
- Produktnummer: 30159110
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'928 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 8 bw illus
Über den Autor
David Stuttard is a classicist and historian, who has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited four 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Antigone (2017), Bacchae (2016), Medea (2014) and Lysistrata (2010).
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