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Author : Martin Cropp,D. J. Conacher,Elaine Fantham,S. E. Scully
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106010927447
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547315070
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has wholly survived. For nearly fifty years, he was the most renowned playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, during the religious festivals. This collection features the seven tragedies by him that have survived in full. Contents include: Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Ajax Electra Trachiniae Philoctetes
Author : Aeschylus,Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547180371
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles" by Aeschylus, Sophocles. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Alfred John Church
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547242758
Alfred John Church's 'Stories from the Greek Tragedians' offers a compelling synthesis of ancient drama through a series of vibrant re-tellings. By distilling the narratives from the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Church not only makes accessible the timeless tales of 'Antigone,' 'Medea,' and others to a Victorian audience but does so with scholarly acuity and narrative verve. His literary style bridges the gap between classical methodology and more contemporary storytelling techniques, providing an insightful context for the enduring relevance of Greek tragedy and its various thematic explorations of fate, ethics, and human psychology. This work stands as both a homage to the great playwrights of antiquity and an interpretive lens through which their potent cultural legacy can be viewed anew. Much of Church's work, including this anthology, can be understood as a culmination of his academic pursuits as a classicist and his tenure as a respected teacher. In rendering these Greek tragedies into engaging English prose, Church draws upon his deep understanding of Hellenic culture and his pedagogical desire to enlighten and entertain. His commitment to faithfully conveying the essence of these seminal works speaks to his desire to democratize classical knowledge and to underscore the universality of the human condition as depicted by the Greek masters. 'Recommended for students and enthusiasts of classics alike, 'Stories from the Greek Tragedians' serves both as an adroit introduction to the tragedians of ancient Greece and a delightful revisitation for those already familiar with the plays. Church offers his readers a key to unlock the profound emotional and intellectual experiences embedded in these stories, making this edition of his work an indispensable addition to any literary collection. The care taken by DigiCat Publishing in the book's reproduction honors Church's efforts, ensuring that the vibrant essence of these ancient tales continues to resonate through the ages.
Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961712
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 Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781524747954
From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191572616
This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the plays. Edith Hall argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it always depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects, This enquiry was played out in the bright sunlight of open-air theatre, which became a key marker of the boundary between living and dead. The first half of the book is divided into four chapters which address the social and physical contexts in which the plays were performed, the contribution of the poets, actors, funders, and audiences, the poetic composition of the texts, their performance conventions, main themes, and focus on religion, politics, and the family. The second half consists of individual essays on each of the surviving thirty-three plays by the Greek tragedians, and an account of the recent performance of Greek tragic theatre and tragic fragments. An up-to-date 'Suggestions for further reading' is included.
Author : Mae J. Smethurst
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400860050
By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami--an important playwright, actor, critic, and teacher of no--offer fresh insight into Aeschylus' use of actors, language, and various elements of stage presentation. Relatively little documentation apart from the texts of the plays is available for the Greek theater of the fifth century B.C., but Smethurst uses documentation on no, and evidence from no performances today, to suggest how presentations of the Persians could have been so successful despite the play's lack of dramatic confrontation. Aeschylean theater resembles that of Zeami in creating its powerful emotional and aesthetic effect through a coherent organization of structural elements. Both playwrights used such methods as the gradual intensification of rhythmic and musical effects, an increase in the number and complexity of the actors' movements, and a progressive focusing of attention on the main actors and on costumes, masks, and props during the course of the play. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691656281
The link between weddings and death—as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding—plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Kassandra, Antigone, and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. Over time the pressure of dramatic events causes the distinctions between weddings and funerals to disappear. In this book, Rush Rehm considers how and why the conflation of the two ceremonies comes to theatrical life in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides. By focusing on the dramatization of important rituals conducted by women in ancient Athenian society, Rehm offers a new perspective on Greek tragedy and the challenges it posed for its audience. The conflation of weddings and funerals, the author argues, unleashes a kind of dramatic alchemy whereby female characters become the bearers of new possibilities. Such as formulation enables the tragedians to explore the limitations of traditional thinking and acting in fifth-century Athens. Rehm finds that when tragic weddings and funerals become confused and perverted, the aftershocks disturb the political and ideological givens of Athenian society, challenging the audience to consider new, and often radically different, directions for their city. Rush Rehm is Assistant Professor of Drama and Classics at Standford University and a free-lance theater director. He is the author of Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge) and Aeschylus' Oresteia: A Theatre Vision (Hawthorn). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David Bullen,Christine Plastow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040095263
Through a series of case studies, this book explores the interrelations among Greek tragedy, theatre practices, and education in the United Kingdom. This is situated within what the volume proposes as ‘the Classics ecology’. The term ‘ecology’, frequently used in Theatre Studies, understands Classics as a field of cultural production dependent on shared knowledge circulated via formal and informal networks, which operate on the basis of mutually beneficial exchange. Productions of Greek tragedy may be influenced by members of the team studying Classics subjects at school or university, or reading popular works of Classical scholarship, or else by working with an academic consultant. All of these have some degree of connection to academic Classics, albeit filtered through different lenses, creating a network of mutual influence and benefit (the ecology). In this way, theatrical productions of Greek drama may, in the long term, influence Classics as an academic discipline, and certainly contribute to attesting to the relevance of Classics in the modern world. The chapters in this volume include contributions by both theatre makers and academics, whose backgrounds vary between Theatre Studies and Classics. They comprise a variety of case studies and approaches, exploring the dissemination of knowledge about the ancient world through projects that engage with Greek tragedy, theories and practices of theatre making through the chorus, and practical relationships between scholars and theatre makers. By understanding the staging of Greek tragedy in the United Kingdom today as being part of the Classics ecology, the book examines practices and processes as key areas in which the value of engaging with the ancient past is (re)negotiated. This book is primarily suitable for students and scholars working in Classical Reception and Theatre Studies who are interested in the reception history of Greek tragedy and the intersection of the two fields. It is also of use to more general Classics and Theatre Studies audiences, especially those engaged with current debates around ‘saving Classics’ and those interested in a structural, systemic approach to the intersection between theatre, culture, and class.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400861613
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal constraint with which he compresses high emotion to the bursting point. The Suppliants, which is the first and only surviving part of a trilogy, does not conform to our expectations of Greek drama in that it has neither hero, nor downfall, nor tragic conclusion. Instead the play portrays unresolved conflicts of sexuality, love, and emotional maturity. These distinctly modern themes come alive in a translation that re-creates the psychological immediacy as well as the dramatic tension of this ancient work. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107493698
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.
Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,6 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
Author : Florence Yoon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004229037
This book examines the substantial role played by invented anonymous figures in the transformation of traditional mythological heroes into the unique dramatic characters of Greek Tragedy.
Author : P. J. Finglass,Lyndsay Coo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108495141
Sheds new light on the topic of women in tragedy by focusing on neglected evidence from the fragments.