Greek Drama V

Author : Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350142367

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Greek Drama V by Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall Pdf

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489683

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Brecht and Tragedy by Martin Revermann Pdf

Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.

Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038554

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Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century by Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides Pdf

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

Author : John Richardson Major
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4038723

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A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians by John Richardson Major Pdf

Author : Karelisa V. Hartigan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849667722

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Performance and Cure by Karelisa V. Hartigan Pdf

In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to receive the nightly ministrations of the deity, his attendants and his animals while they slept in the dormitory at the Asklepieion. To support her thesis, Hartigan discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process, a relationship the medical profession is beginning to recognize. She concludes by presenting first-hand material based on her experience doing Playback Theatre for patients at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. In performing improvisational scenes at bedside or in a community space, she has witnessed how the mini-dramas lift the patients' spirits and offer them hope for a successful outcome to their illness.

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307949721

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The Theater of War by Bryan Doerries Pdf

For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.

Author : Moses Hadas
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780553902587

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Greek Drama by Moses Hadas Pdf

In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction explores the religious origins, modes of productions, structure, and conventions of the Greek theater, individual prefaces illuminate each play and clarify the author's place in the continuity of Greek drama.

Author : Malika Bastin-Hammou,Giovanna Di Martino,Cécile Dudouyt,Lucy C. M. M. Jackson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110719314

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Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe by Malika Bastin-Hammou,Giovanna Di Martino,Cécile Dudouyt,Lucy C. M. M. Jackson Pdf

The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England). Whilst studies of the reception of ancient Greek drama in this period have generally focused on one national tradition, this book widens the geographical and linguistic scope so as to approach it as a European phenomenon. Latin translations are particularly emblematic of this broader scope: translators from all over Europe latinised Greek drama and, as they did so, developed networks of translators and practices of translation that could transcend national borders. The chapters collected here demonstrate that translation theory and practice did not develop in national isolation, but were part of a larger European phenomenon, nourished by common references to Biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities, and honed by common religious and scholarly controversies. In addition to situating these texts in the wider context of the reception of Greek drama in the early modern period, this volume opens avenues for theoretical debate about translation practices and discourses on translation, and on how they map on to twenty-first-century terminology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472519856

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Law and Drama in Ancient Greece by Anonim Pdf

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. Some essays show how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques. Other essays examine the information provided about legal procedure found in Aristophanes' comedies or the views about the role of law in society expressed in Attic drama. The collection reveals reveal how the study of law and legal procedure can enhance our understanding of ancient drama and bring new insights to the interpretation of individual plays.

Author : Kathryn Bosher,Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Patrice Rankine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191637339

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas by Kathryn Bosher,Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Patrice Rankine Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbitrarily. This volume tracks networks across continents and oceans and uncovers the ways in which the shared histories and practices in the performance arts in the Americas have routinely defied national boundaries. With contributions from classicists, Latin American specialists, theatre and performance theorists, and historians, the Handbook also includes interviews with key writers, including Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Charles Mee, and Anne Carson, and leading theatre directors such as Peter Sellars, Carey Perloff, Héctor Daniel-Levy, and Heron Coelho. This richly illustrated volume seeks to define the complex contours of the reception of Greek drama in the Americas, and to articulate how these different engagements - at local, national, or trans-continental levels, as well as across borders - have been distinct both from each other, and from those of Europe and Asia.

Author : Karelisa Hartigan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106011114839

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Greek Tragedy on the American Stage by Karelisa Hartigan Pdf

During the past century, the interpretation given by the various directors staging Greek drama has varied, and the critical reception accorded the productions has also altered. While the texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides remain constant, the meanings drawn from their plays do not. The director who decides to offer a Greek tragedy in the modern American commercial theater believes in the ability of the text to reach the contemporary audience, and the reviewers assess the success of the venture: their words become a record of both a particular performance and the time in which it played. Hartigan explores how drama and society interact and witnesses the continued vitality of the Greek tragedy.

Author : Luis Alfaro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350155428

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The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro by Luis Alfaro Pdf

Winner of the London Hellenic Prize 2020 The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro gathers together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays of the MacArthur Genius Award-winning Chicanx playwright and performance artist. Based respectively on Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus, and Euripides' Medea, Alfaro's Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada transplant ancient themes and problems into the 21st century streets of Los Angeles and New York, in order to give voice to the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx communities. From performances around the world including sold-out runs at New York's Public Theater, these texts are extremely important to those studying classical reception, Greek theatre and Chicanx writers. This unique anthology features definitive editions of all three plays alongside a comprehensive introduction which provides a critical overview of Luis Alfaro's work, accentuating not only the unique nature of these three 'urban' adaptations of ancient Greek tragedy but also the manner in which they address present-day Chicanx and Latinx socio-political realities across the United States. A brief introduction to each play and its overall themes precedes the text of the drama. The anthology concludes with exclusive supplementary material aimed at enhancing understanding of Alfaro's plays: a 'Performance History' timeline outlining the performance history of the plays; an alphabetical 'Glossary' explaining the most common terms in Spanish and Spanglish appearing in each play; and a 'Further Reading' list providing primary and secondary bibliography for each play. The anthology is completed by a new interview with Alfaro which addresses key topics such as Alfaro's engagement with ancient Greek drama and his work with Chicanx communities across the United States, thus providing a critical contextualisation of these critically-acclaimed plays.

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Lionel David Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : OCLC:911825970

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The Greek Drama by Lionel David Barnett Pdf