RITUALS IN SOPHOCLES - (A.) Brook Tragic Rites. Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama. Pp. xii + 237. Madison, WI and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Cased, US$99.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-31380-7.
Abstract:The argument seems more problematic in Electra: the spectators' 'identification process towards' the politides of Mycenae/Argos (p. 174) is accompanied by the 'blurring of the distinction between chorus and principals' (p. 176), both eventually conspiring to kill the oppressive rulers (p. 231). However, Sophoclean ironies cannot be ruled out. The collective viewpoint defined by the attitudes of a tragic chorususually as subjective and changing as those of other non-conventional human characterscould affect, bu… Show more
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