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Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America book cover

1st Edition

Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition The Muses in America

By Robert J. Rabel Copyright 2025
232 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often forgotten, figure in the history of American drama and the Classical Tradition. The book highlights... Read more

Introduction; 1. To Anderson through Aeschylus: Winterset and the Oresteia; 2. To Anderson through Euripides: The Wingless Victory and the Medea; 3. To Anderson Through Homer: The Ulysses Africanus of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill; 4. To Anderson Through Aristotle, Sophocles, and William March: Bad Seed; 5. Late Minor Works; Afterward: Maxwell Who?

Biography

Robert J. Rabel is Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. He has also taught at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is the author of Plot and Point of View in the Iliad (1997) and editor of Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern (2005). He has also written articles on Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek and Roman philosophy, Greek history, Roman epic, Classics and film, and Classical influences on American drama. He is currently writing a book applying the modern theory of political realism to the Iliad and the movie Troy, to be titled Getting Real about the Trojan War.

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