Tragic Agency In Classical Drama From Aeschylus To Voltaire

Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004467378

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Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire by Paul Hammond Pdf

Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004695689

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Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny by Anonim Pdf

In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts. The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of space, sound and silence, his language, and the psychology of those who exercise power or who attempt to maintain their freedom in the face of oppression. The reception and reworking of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations round off this wide-ranging study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004504813

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Racine’s Roman Tragedies by Anonim Pdf

In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.

Author : W. B. Stanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317698777

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Greek Tragedy and the Emotions (Routledge Revivals) by W. B. Stanford Pdf

According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre. In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in 1993, W.B. Stanford reviews the evidence for ‘emotionalism’ – as the great Attic playwrights presented it, as the actors and choruses expressed it, and as their audiences reacted to it. Sociological aspects of the issue are considered, and the whole range of emotions, not just ‘pity and fear’, is discussed. The aural, visual and stylistic methods of inciting emotion are analysed, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia is examined exclusively in terms of the emotions that it exploits. Finally, Stanford’s conclusions are contrasted with the accepted theories of tragic ‘catharsis’. Greek terms are transliterated and all quotations are in translation, so Greek Tragedy and the Emotions will appeal particularly to those unfamiliar with Classical Greek.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900450480X

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Racine's Roman Tragedies: Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice by Anonim Pdf

In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.

Author : Richard Green Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Classical drama
ISBN : UOM:39015041861702

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The Ancient Classical Drama by Richard Green Moulton Pdf

Author : Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350028814

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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy by Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller Pdf

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Stratos Constantinidis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004332164

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The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers by Stratos Constantinidis Pdf

In The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays 15 scholars explore new methods and frontiers for studying and staging Aeschylus’ plays by showing the tensions between traditional scholarship and innovative analysis in reception studies and performance studies.

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134414925

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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 : H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317761457

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Greek Tragedy by H. D. F. Kitto Pdf

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: * why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? * why did Sophocles develop character drawing? * why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good? Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

Author : R. B. Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521848909

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Greek Tragic Style by R. B. Rutherford Pdf

An exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.

Author : William Bedell Stanford
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003276941

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Greek Tragedy and the Emotions by William Bedell Stanford Pdf

Author : Hanna Roisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:859544244

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The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy by Hanna Roisman Pdf

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015060001263

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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 chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. Part analysis, part polemic, this book engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.