Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Matthew Arnold's Merope
Author: Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold's Merope
Author: Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold's Merope
Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330476956
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Excerpt from Matthew Arnold's Merope: To Which Is Appended the Electra of Sophocles This volume is an experiment. It is an attempt to introduce and to bring home to modern readers who are not Greek scholars, Attic tragedy in its most perfect form, and in all its characteristics of theme, structure, sentiment, and style. It is an attempt to do in another way what Arnold himself attempted to do when he composed the drama which is here edited - and edited with the best of commentaries, namely, a close and faithful version of the tragedy of which his work is the English counterpart. The 'unlearned' reader may thus compare the original - for the version which we are here privileged to reproduce very exactly recalls it - and the copy, and in this way be brought as nearly as it is possible for a reader without Greek to be brought into touch with the only dramatic masterpieces comparable to our own Shakespeare's. More and more are we beginning to understand that advanced education, on the side at least of the humanities, and particularly of poetry, of criticism, and of many branches of philosophy, must have its basis in the poetry, criticism, and philosophy of ancient Greece, partly because so much of our own is apart from them historically unintelligible, and partly because they supply needs which the rapidly progressive dissolution of all conventionalities and traditions are increasingly creating and defining. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Matthew Arnold's merope. To which is appended the electra of sophocles, translated by Robert Whitelaw
Author: Matthew ArnoldMerope
Author: Matthew ArnoldMerope
Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290232807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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MEROPE
Author: Matthew 1822-1888 ArnoldPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371884840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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The Bookman
Author: The Classical Journal
Author: What Was Tragedy?
Author: Blair HoxbyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191065994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. What Was Tragedy? demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite all the twists and turns of critical fashion in the twentieth century, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795. By reconstructing that poetics, Blair Hoxby makes sense of plays that are "merely pathetic, not truly tragic," of operas with happy endings, of Christian tragedies, and of other plays that advertised themselves as tragedies to early modern audiences and yet have subsequently been denied the palm of tragedy by critics. In doing so, Hoxby not only illuminates masterpieces by Shakespeare, Calderón, Corneille, Racine, Milton, and Mozart, he also revivifies a vast repertoire of tragic drama and opera that has been relegated to obscurity by critical developments since 1800. He suggests how many of these plays might be reclaimed as living works of theater. And by reconstructing a lost conception of tragedy both ancient and modern, he illuminates the hidden assumptions and peculiar blind-spots of the idealist critical tradition that runs from Schelling, Schlegel, and Hegel, through Wagner, Nietzsche, and Freud, up to modern post-structuralism.