Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction - Edith Hall
Mar 18, 2025•4 hr 25 min
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Title: Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Edith Hall
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:24:45
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Ancient Civilizations, Literary Criticism
Summary:
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century.
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Title: Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Edith Hall
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:24:45
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Ancient Civilizations, Literary Criticism
Summary:
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century.
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