SOURCE: "Equus as a Modern Tragedy," in West Virginia Philological Papers Vol. 25, 1979, pp. 128-34.
In the essay below, Timm compares Equus to the classical Greek dramas Oedipus and Antigone and to Racine's Phèdre in an attempt to define a modern version of tragedy.
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