An Introduction To Greek Tragedy

Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139493499

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An Introduction to Greek Tragedy by Ruth Scodel Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Greek Tragedy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961712

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Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles Pdf

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 : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009183048

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Reading Greek Tragedy by Simon Goldhill Pdf

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 : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199232512

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Greek Tragedy by Edith Hall Pdf

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 : Peter Arnott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349005291

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An Introduction to the Greek Theatre by Peter Arnott Pdf

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470693261

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Greek Tragedy by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Pdf

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 : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226154671

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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater by Graham Ley Pdf

Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles. Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of scenes from Greek vases that document theatrical performance, this new edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts, as well as an updated bibliography. An ideal companion to The Complete Greek Tragedies, also published by the University of Chicago Press, Ley’s work is a concise and informative introduction to one of the great periods of world drama. "Anyone faced with Athenian tragedy or comedy for the first time, in or out of the classroom, would do well to start with A Short Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater."—Didaskalia

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226301273

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How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today by Simon Goldhill Pdf

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

Author : Marion Baldock
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110391658

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Greek Tragedy by Marion Baldock Pdf

A concise introduction to Greek Tragedy.

Author : Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781405137638

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan Pdf

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 : Martin Thibodeau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739177297

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Hegel and Greek Tragedy by Martin Thibodeau Pdf

This study is concerned with the different interpretations of Greek tragedy proposed by G.W.F. Hegel. While Hegel's philosophical interest in tragedy as an art form is well known, the motivation for his preoccupation with this art form needs to be further explored. Indeed, why would Hegel, a pivotal figure of German idealism, be inclined to concern himself with a form of poetry that reached its peak in the 5th century B.C.' Precisely this question forms the core of this book. It articulates what the primary stakes are and thereby develop and defend the thesis that Hegel's examination of Greece and tragedy is one that has a direct bearing on the "fate" of politics in the modern world.

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152051

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A Companion to Greek Tragedy by Justina Gregory Pdf

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 : John Ferguson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292759701

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A Companion to Greek Tragedy by John Ferguson Pdf

This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context—important for both Athenian and modern audiences—and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature. Ferguson is sensitive to the meter and sound of Greek tragedy, and, with remarkable success, he manages to involve even the Greekless reader in an actual encounter with the Greek as poetry. He examines language and metrics in relation to each tragedian's dramatic purpose, thus elucidating the crucial dimension of technique that other handbooks, mostly the work of philologists, renounce in order to concentrate on structure and plot. The result is perceptive criticism in which the quality of Ferguson's scholarship vouches for what he sees in the plays. The book is prefaced with a general introduction to ancient Greek theatrical production, and there is a brief biographical sketch of each tragedian. Footnotes are avoided: the object of this handbook is to introduce readers to the plays as dramatic poetry, not to detail who said what about them. There is an extensive bibliography for scholars and a glossary of Greek words to assist the student with the operative moral and stylistic terms of Greek tragedy.

Author : Laura Swift
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474236850

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Greek Tragedy by Laura Swift Pdf

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.