Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama. - MACINTOSH, Fiona,
death in ancient Greek and modern Irish tragic drama
KORTE INHOUD
'Greek tragedy and the plays of the Irish Literary Revival have a number of common features: Ireland saw itself as having a special relationship with the Greeks as far back as the Middle Ages, and the classical tradition, with ready (if sometimes spurious) parallels to be drawn between the Greek and Gaelic myths and bardic traditions (?). W.B. Yeats came to see Greece as 'a storehouse of cultural traditions that industrialized Europe had sacrifices in the name of progress': as Fiona Macintosh demonstrates, Seán O'Casey was no less aware of classical precedent when he fashioned his tragic scenes. Macintosh sets her study of the representation of death and dying in Greek and Irish drama against this background, and offers some novel and interesting comparative insights within a general field where one might have thought there was not much new left to be said. She argues that death in Greek and Irish society is given a different kind of representation from that found in many other traditions (?). Death is not a ...
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Cork, 1994. XX,212p. Cloth wrps. Upper edge a bit stained. With author's dedication to Professor Arnott on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: MACINTOSH, Fiona,] [Uitgever: Cork University Press] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama.]
