Classical Tragedy

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This course will read the great Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and some Senecan tragedy. We will then read Renaissance and later tragedies that use the classical world as a setting, such as Antony and Cleopatra , Julius Caesar , and tragedies that rewrite classical themes, including O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra .