LEADER 03427nam 22006131c 450 001 9910785905203321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-3958-3 010 $a1-4725-0249-3 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472539588 035 $a(CKB)2670000000310202 035 $a(EBL)1080341 035 $a(OCoLC)820011188 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000812575 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11512390 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000812575 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10860292 035 $a(PQKB)10073672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1080341 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1080341 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632571 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL603626 035 $a(OCoLC)893336188 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255203 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310202 100 $a20140929d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAeschylus$ePrometheus bound /$fI.A. Ruffell 210 1$aLondon $cBristol Classical Press $d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 1 $aCompanions to Greek and Roman tragedy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7156-3476-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aPreface -- Themes, Contexts and Receptions -- Gods and Other Monsters -- Technology and Civilisation -- Making a Spectacle -- The Radical Tradition -- Timeline -- Abbreviations and Select Bibliography -- References -- Index 330 $a"Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, PrometheusBound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age."--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $aPrometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age 410 0$aCompanions to Greek and Roman tragedy. 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy) 606 $2Greece 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy) 676 $a882.01 700 $aRuffell$b Ian$0476682 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785905203321 996 $aAeschylus$93726861 997 $aUNINA