An Introduction To Greek Tragedy
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Author | : Ruth Scodel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139493493 |
This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background information, helps readers appreciate, enjoy and engage with the plays themselves, and gives them an idea of the important questions in current scholarship on tragedy. Ruth Scodel seeks to dispel misleading assumptions about tragedy, stressing how open the plays are to different interpretations and reactions. In addition to general background, the book also includes chapters on specific plays, both the most familiar titles and some lesser-known plays - Persians, Helen and Orestes - in order to convey the variety that the tragedies offer readers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : Simon Goldhill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2023-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009183044 |
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the masterpieces of Athenian drama in the light of contemporary critical controversies in such a way as to enable the student or scholar not only to understand and appreciate the texts of the most commonly read plays, but also to evaluate and utilize the range of approaches to the problems of ancient drama. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek tragedy since the original publication.
Author | : Edith Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2010-01-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0199232512 |
An illustrated introduction to ancient Greek tragedy, written by one of its most distinguished experts, which provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the dramas. A special feature is an individual essay on every one of the surviving 33 plays.
Author | : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405121610 |
Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961716 |
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
Author | : Justina Gregory |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405152052 |
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
Author | : Ian C. Storey |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1405137630 |
This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC. A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theatre; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama. Includes 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.
Author | : Laura Swift |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474236847 |
The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it focuses on the broader questions of what defines tragedy, what its particular preoccupations are, and what makes these texts so widely studied and performed more than 2,000 years after they were written. As such, the book will be of interest to students taking broad courses on Greek tragedy, while also being suitable for the general reader who wants an overview of the subject. All passages of tragedy discussed are translated by the author and supplementary information includes a chronology of all the surviving tragedies, a glossary, and guidance on further reading.
Author | : Simon Goldhill |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0226301273 |
Space and concept -- The chorus -- The actor's role -- Tragedy and politics : what's Hecuba to him? -- Translations : finding a script -- Gods, ghosts, and Helen of Troy