The Greek Tragic Theatre

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134814145

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Greek Tragic Theatre by Rush Rehm Pdf

Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focussed on the audience.

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317606840

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Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre by Rush Rehm Pdf

Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in fifth-century Athens, Rush Rehm encourages classicists, actors, and directors to approach Greek tragedy by considering its original context. Emphasizing the political nature of tragedy as a theatre of, by, and for the polis, Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture, one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import and moment. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city – a theatre whose focus was on the audience. The second half of the book examines four exemplary plays, Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, and Euripides’ Suppliant Women and Ion. Without ignoring the scholarly tradition, Rehm focuses on how each tragedy unfolds in performance, generating different relationships between the characters (and chorus) on stage and the audience in the theatre.

Author : H. C. Baldry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : UCBK:B000752635

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The Greek Tragic Theatre by H. C. Baldry Pdf

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472502346

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Radical Theatre by Rush Rehm Pdf

Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. 'Theatre, Artifice, Environment' explores the difference between the outdoor theatre of Athens and the artificial interiors of modern performance. 'Theatre and Fear' compares the terrors confronted in Greek tragedy with our own, seemingly distant fears (environmental destruction, dehumanising technology, corporate control of livelihood and culture). 'The Fate of Agency, the Agency of Fate' applies the paradox of human freedom in Greek tragedy to our own paradoxes of powerlessness and mastery. 'Tragedy and Ideology' treats Greek tragedy as an act of resistance, and 'Tragedy and Time' relates Greek tragedy's survival to its moment-to-moment realisation in performance. Part analysis, part polemic, Radical Theatre engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.

Author : Peter Arnott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : J. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134374106

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The Greek Sense of Theatre by J. Walton Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : J Michael Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317513964

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The Greek Sense of Theatre by J Michael Walton Pdf

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.

Author : H. C. Baldry
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : UOM:39015008406053

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The Greek Tragic Theatre by H. C. Baldry Pdf

Studies the nature of Greek tragedy during the fifth century B.C. focusing on the function of the actors and chorus, the organization of the theatre, and the audience.

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226477619

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

Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, the author discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. This edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts.

Author : M. S. Silk,Michael Stephen Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037770834

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Tragedy and the Tragic by M. S. Silk,Michael Stephen Silk Pdf

The contributors, who include many of the world's foremost names in the field of Greek drama, debate the question. They reassess particular Greek plays, from Oresteia to Antigone and Oedipus to Ion; they re-examine Greek tragedy in its cultural and political context; and the relate the tragedy of the Greeks to the serious drama and theoretical perspectives of the modern world, with Shakespeare at the forefront of several essays.

Author : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000291513

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How Greek Tragedy Works by Brian Kulick Pdf

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 : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134414932

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Greek Tragedy in Action by Oliver Taplin Pdf

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 : Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781408149867

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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama by Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths Pdf

A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.

Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134924035

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Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre by Peter D. Arnott Pdf

Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses. Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context of its own society and of theatre practice in general, with examples from other cultures. Professor Arnott places great emphasis on the practical staging of Greek plays, and how the buildings themselves imposed particular constraints on actors and writers alike. Above all, he sets out to make practical sense of the construction of Greek plays, and their organic relationship to their original setting.

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.