Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays

by Michael Messina and Bob Shuman

As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war. The greatest of the early playwrights wrote from experience--Aeschylus and Sophocles were generals in the Athenian army, and Euripides was a combat veteran. Electronic media reports war instantly, but the stage provides an unrivaled venue for facing the horror of armed conflict on a human scale.This timely anthology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127326
• ISBN13: 9780810127326
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"