Classical Greek Tragedy
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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 | : Robert Willoughby Corrigan |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781557830463 |
(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.
Author | : Jean-Pierre Vernant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : Simon Goldhill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1986-05-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521315791 |
An advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy for those who do not read Greek. Combines the best contemporary scholarly analysis of the classics with a wide knowledge of contemporary literary studies in discussing the masterpieces of Athenian drama.
Author | : Mary Louise Hart |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060376 |
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author | : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470693266 |
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 | : Rosie Wyles |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780715639450 |
The core of the book focuses on tragic costume in its original performance context of fifth-century Athens, but the implications of subsequent uses in Roman and more recent performances are also taken into consideration.Most importantly, the reader is invited to think about how tragic costume worked as a language in ancient performance and was manipulated physically and verbally in order to create meaning. Elements of this language are shown through a series of test cases from a range of ancient tragedies. All ancient passages are given in translation and the book includes a glossary of terms.
Author | : Robert Garland |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators and theatre directors. Over the course of this 2,400-year period, the plays were at different times performed, copied, quoted, emended, excerpted, analysed, taught, translated, censored, adapted, or merely left to moulder in a library, as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage, and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world, taking this fascinating story right up to the present. Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre, London.