The fall-out from dissent: hero and audience in Sophocles' Ajax
Sophocles’ Ajax has long confounded critics. As a study of the great hero figure it has been found wanting, on the basis that Ajax kills himself half-way through the play. On the other hand, the characters left in his wake have been criticised for destroying the tragic gravity by engaging in petty q...
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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