From Epic Tragedy to Tragic Epic: Marina Carr’s Hecuba, Girl on an Altar, and iGirl
This article examines the genre of “epic tragedy” in two of the most recent adaptations of Greek tragedy by Marina Carr, Hecuba (2015) and Girl on an Altar (2022), as well as its reversal to produce a “tragic epic” in iGirl (2021). In the Poetics, Aristotle establishes a stark distinction between th...
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Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses
2023-12-01
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| Series: | ABEI Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/213186 |