Bøker av Martin Mueller

These essays deal with the uses of Greek tragedy by European playwrights between the Renaissance and the Romantic period. While the individual essays include discussions of plays, they aim at isolating the strategies of adaptation and patterns of transformation shared by the different writers as heirs to a common dramatic tradition.

Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry.