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Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
Dan Curley
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Description for Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
hardcover. This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters, motifs and modalities in the Heroides and the Metamorphoses. In writing love letters, Ovid's heroines and heroes display their suffering in an epistolary theater. In telling transformation stories, Ovid ... Read more
Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters, motifs and modalities in the Heroides and the Metamorphoses. In writing love letters, Ovid's heroines and heroes display their suffering in an epistolary theater. In telling transformation stories, Ovid ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107009530
SKU
V9781107009530
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About Dan Curley
Dan Curley is Associate Professor of Classics at Skidmore College.
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