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... Aeschylus is usually regarded as the one who , realizing the dramatic possibilities of the dialogue , first added a second speaker and thus invented the form of tragedy . That so sophisticated a form could have been fully developed by a ...
... Aeschylus is usually regarded as the one who , realizing the dramatic possibilities of the dialogue , first added a second speaker and thus invented the form of tragedy . That so sophisticated a form could have been fully developed by a ...
Page 162
... Aeschylus ' works . The ac- tion is swifter and more highly articulated ; the dialogue is sharper , more staccato , and bears more of the meaning of the play . Though much has been made of the influence of fate on the action of the play ...
... Aeschylus ' works . The ac- tion is swifter and more highly articulated ; the dialogue is sharper , more staccato , and bears more of the meaning of the play . Though much has been made of the influence of fate on the action of the play ...
Page 165
... Aeschylus , that evil might be resolved by the enlightenment gained from suffering . As in the tragedies of Euripides , the protagonist's margin of freedom grows ever smaller . " You are the deed's creature , " cries a murderer to his ...
... Aeschylus , that evil might be resolved by the enlightenment gained from suffering . As in the tragedies of Euripides , the protagonist's margin of freedom grows ever smaller . " You are the deed's creature , " cries a murderer to his ...
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