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6 produkter
Death and Marriage
Greek and Roman Drama
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2018
289 kr
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This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists. The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with Greek tragedy of the fifth century BCE, but also with Seneca’s tragedies of the first century CE. The …
What Shakespeare Stole From Rome
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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What Shakespeare Stole From Rome analyses the multiple ways Shakespeare used material from Roman history and Latin poetry in his plays and poems. Three important tragedies deal with the history of the Roman Republic: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. From the tragedies of Seneca, …
Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2020
271 kr
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This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today’s leading writers. A special …
Poetry of Sex
From Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy
Av Brian Arkins
Inbunden, 2023
591 kr
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Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and also Chaucer and Shakespeare, who wrote briefly about the tyranny of sexual desire. Also, in England, Shelley and Byron, who wrote of incest. The book …
Thought of W.B. Yeats
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2010
1252 kr
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This study focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. Since opposites are central to Yeats’s thought, the book begins with an analysis of this topic. The author then examines Yeats’s views on religion, sex and politics, again scrutinising …
