Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction - Edith Hall torrent

Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Greece Ancient History Literary History Very Short Introductions

Written by Edith Hall
Read by Mary Jane Wells
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 03-18-25

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.