Heracles
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780887347962 (0887347967)
Publish date: December 2002
Publisher: Players Press
Pages no: 35
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology,
Fiction
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Like pretty much all of the Greek tragedies this play utilises the unities of time and place. The entire action takes place in a single day outside a palace in Thebes. Once again, all of the action takes place off stage and in narrated to the audience by one of the characters, and as in other plays ...