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WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TRAGIC: GREEK PLAYS FOR THE MODERN AGE by Johanna Skibsrud
“In the ancient Greek context, tragedies
employed masks — a performance
element that explicitly connected Greek
drama with the ritual practices from
which it emerged. For both theater and
ritual, masks created a liminal space in
which the borders between self and other,
the represented and the real, became
blurred and uncertain.”
Released last fall by Hamish Hamilton Canada, and coming out in paperback, and in the US, this fall—Island covers a period of just twenty-four hours in which my characters’ lives and realities are profoundly changed." I began work on the book shortly after completing my second novel, Quartet for the End of Time—a novel that spans several decades and involves an intricate network of both real and fictional characters and historical events. In many ways, I envisioned Island as Quartet’s opposite…
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