Disciplines
Linguistics and Literature (100%)
Keywords
Aeschylus,
Narratives,
Genre Theory,
History of Drama,
Tragic Chorus,
Poetics
Abstract
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the
immaturity of the tragic genre in his time.
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly constitutive of the
genre for Aeschylus but later became more peripheral. The book reconstructs how these
developments in tragedy affected the reception of Aeschylus and tests new reading strategies that
adapt readers` expectations to his texts.