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By H. D. F. Kitto

ISBN-10: 041572936X

ISBN-13: 9780415729369

Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes - and Hamlet, this publication additionally features a bankruptcy at the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic types and one on non secular drama. this can be a massive paintings from an writer revered for a positive and delicate caliber of criticism.

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