Aeschylus : Prometheus bound / / I.A. Ruffell

• Autore: Ruffell Ian
• Pubblicazione: London, : Bristol Classical Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 882.01
• Soggetto topico: Greek drama (Tragedy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Themes, Contexts and Receptions -- Gods and Other Monsters -- Technology and Civilisation -- Making a Spectacle -- The Radical Tradition -- Timeline -- Abbreviations and Select Bibliography -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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; 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, 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Aeschylus
• ISBN: 1-4725-3958-3; 1-4725-0249-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785905203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.