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Article: The appeal of a plotless tragedy.
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- College Literature
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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The argument of The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative
Study of Greek Tragedy and No demonstrates how the treatises and the No plays of Zeami, a fourteenth/ fifteenth century writer and playwright, might be helpful in the appreciation of the tragedies of Aeschylus, an early fifth century B.C. playwright. The book is divided into two parts -- the first two chapters cover the structure and the performance of Zeami's warrior classification of No and of Aeschylean tragedy; the final two chapters analyze the texts of both theatres closely, from the point of view of written style and performance. Although we have no contemporary commentaries on ...