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Fiona Mackintosh: Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama

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The title of this fascinating study is something of a red herring. Death in ancient Greek and modern Irish tragic drama is, according to Fiona Mackintosh, not a discrete act, but a gradual process, informing both the structure and the tragic thematic of the plays.

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Upton, CA. (1997). Fiona Mackintosh: Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama. In: Zimmermann, B. (eds) Griechisch-römische Komödie und Tragödie II. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04271-2_18

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