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Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire

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Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire

by Paul Hammond, "Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire "
English | ISBN: 9004467017 | 2021 | 388 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The book discusses plays from classical Greece to neo-classical France.