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Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316516256
Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Author : Renaud Gagné,Marianne Govers Hopman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107033283
This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Author : Dean Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89095319240
Author : Richard Green Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Classical drama
ISBN : UOM:39015041861702
Author : Nicholas Baechle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781585108688
This is an intermediate to advanced textbook for first reading of Greek tragedy. This book draws from selections from both Euripides’ and Sophocles’ Electra. It is designed to provide students with a structured access to reading interesting Greek at the advanced level, and as it appears in works of Greek tragedy. It provides a careful introduction to the language of tragedy, Greek poetry as found in Electra, and to the nature and forms of Greek tragedy. The book focuses on material relevant for translation and understanding the unique form of drama through translation.
Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405121613
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 : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000291513
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to classical texts by equipping them with ways in which they can unpack the hidden meanings of these plays. He focuses on three of the key texts of Greek theatre: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Euripides' The Bacchae, and Sophocles' Electra, and uses them to tease out the core principles of the theatre-making and storytelling impulses. By encouraging us to read between the lines like this, he also enables us to read these and other Greek tragedies as artists' manifestos, equipping us not only to understand tragedy itself, but also to interpret what the great playwrights had to say about the nature of plays and drama. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who finds themselves confronted with tackling the Greek classics, whether as a reader, scholar, student, or director.
Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Naomi A. Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520295902
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.
Author : Thomas Kohn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472118571
Fresh insight into the dramaturgical practices of the Younger Seneca
Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199978823
Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521666155
This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space for the purposes of any given play. The book shows how performance as a whole was organised and, through informative diagrams and accessible analyses, Wiles brings the theatre of Greek tragedy to life.
Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134414932
Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world.
Author : Melinda Powers
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609382315
"Investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre."--Back cover.
Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405175494
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