Sophocles. Translated by H. Harvey and D. Harvey. With an introduction by H. Lloyd-Jones. - REINHARDT, K.,

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'Karl Reinhardt's magistral 'Sophocles', now published in an excellent English translation, is a must for all libraries. (...) Reinhardt analyses the plays of Sophocles one by one with a gaze directed not so much on questions of plot, character, and dramatic technique as on the relationships here displayed of man to man and man to the gods. He emphasizes the gulf in the plays between man and god - a gulf which ordinary men can bridge but not the Sophoclean hero, which is emprisoned in the isolation of his tragic fate. Sophocles' approach, however, according to Reinhardt is not static but develops from play to play; at first the characters tend simply to present their own points of view in language often bejewelled with imagery, without being able to communicate effectively with each other; but in the later masterpieces a person's ideas may be affected by what others tell him, and the language is more taut and spare. The argument about development rests on the foundations of Reinhardt's idiosyncratic chronolog...
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1979Uitgever: Basil Blackwell279 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0631184805ISBN-13: 9780631184805

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