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Eight Great Tragedies

by · 1957

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The complete texts of the world's great tragedies from ancient times to the present.

Promethues Bound - Aeschylus

Oedipus the King - Sophocles

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Hippolytus - Euripides

King Lear - Shakespeare

Ghosts - Ibsen

Miss Julie - Strindberg

On Baile's Strand - Yeats

Desire Under the Elms - O'Neill

Also included are essay by Aristotle, Hume, Emerson, Tillyard, Richards, and Krutch.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages
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