Antigone on Your Knee
Terry Eagleton, 6 February 2020
A Cultural History of Tragedy: Vols I-VI
edited by Rebecca Bushnell.
Bloomsbury Academic, 1302 pp., £395, November 2019,978 1 4742 8814 9 Show More
edited by Rebecca Bushnell.
Bloomsbury Academic, 1302 pp., £395, November 2019,
“... ethico-political education for the city state as a whole, not just a night out for the toffs. As Karen Sullivan notes in the first v0lume, it was also a form in which women figured prominently. During the festival of Dionysus, at which tragic drama was first performed, the city turned itself into a theatre, as the citizens who had learned to assess ... ”