Reality and the Heroic Pattern: Last Plays of Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Sophocles.

Language: English

Published by Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1967

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XIV, 169 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bleached spine, somewhat rubbed binding, annotation on endpaper and title page, small staining on last endpaper, otherwise good. / Verblichener Rücken, etwas beriebener Einband, Anmerkung auf Vorsatz und Titelblatt, kleine Anschmutzung auf hinterem Vorsatz, sonst gut. - In this stimulating book David Grene looks closely at the last plays of three great dramatists: Ibsen's The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When We Dead Awaken; Shakespeare's Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest; and Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. Grene sees in the plays common features of plot and treatment, and a similar theme. "That theme at its most directas in the Ibsen playsis the establishment of meaning for the events of a life, looking backward from its conclusion," writes the author. "This is to relate the sequence of acts to some pattern of reality . so that we believe there was a direction and significance to our lives." Such an "heroic pattern," however, can be established only against the current of anonymous reality, the tide of events and people that threatens to obscure the unique pattern of each particular life. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Title
Reality and the Heroic Pattern: Last Plays of Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Sophocles.
Author
Grene, David:
Publisher
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press
Publication year
1967
Condition
Gut
Binding
Original softcover.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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