Tragedy's End

Author: Francis M. Dunn
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 019508344X

Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama

Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Get Tragedy's End literature books for free.
Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimentation in plot and ending reinforce one another in Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Heracles. Part Three argues that in three late Check Tragedy's End our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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