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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/342149 Title: Discovering Great Plays: As Literature and as Philosophy Author: Leonard Peikoff Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs 51 mins Language: English Release date: 2018-08-01 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism Publisher's Summary: Based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope, Discovering Great Plays provides the ability to understand, judge, and savor the values offered by great drama. Listeners will discover plot-theme as the key to a play; see Antigone as a great heroine and Iago as the darkest villain in literature; learn about the Cornelian hero; see how Schiller's 'Grand Inquisitor' scene is the most dramatic and philosophic in all of theater; and discover Shaw's brilliance in presenting the genius against society.Plays discussed include: Antigone by Sophocles; Othello by Shakespeare; Le Cid by Corneille; D