Reading. Ferguson, John, A Companion to Greek Tragedy, University of Texas Press, 1972. This book is useful in understanding the basic themes of Greek tragedy as well as the individual plays and playwrights. Hanson, Victor Davis, A War ...

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410347404

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for "Greek Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.

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.

Author: Kenneth McLeish

Publisher: Methuen Drama

ISBN: UCSC:32106017094217

Category: Drama

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Athens in the fifth century B.C. produced a remarkable flowering of playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in tragedy, Aristophanes and, in the fourth century, Menander in comedy. They laid the foundations for all Western drama and continue to speak as powerfully after 2,500 years. Kenneth McLeish's authoritative and enthusiastic Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is full of his enjoyment and understanding of the plays. It provides an extensive introduction to Athenian theatre, the form of the plays and, as far as can be established, how the plays were performed. Then follows a background section on each playwright, a synopsis and commentary for each of the surviving plays and an outline of Aristotle's theories on drama. The result is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in Greek theatre. The volume was completed by Professor Trevor R. Griffiths.

The author has traveled extensively and examined many of the remaining sites in Greece, Southern Italy, and the Balkans. Gressler, Thomas H. Greek Theatre in the 1980s, McFarland & Company, 1989. A study of modern Greek theater in which ...

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Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410339485

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Sophocles's "The Ajax," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

20 " ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE " : GREEK DRAMA CHAPTER SUMMARY Plays , both tragedies and comedies , were popular in ancient Greece . Today , they are considered among the greatest contributions to our culture .

Author: Jennifer T. Roberts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199770243

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

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The Student Study Guides are important and unique components that are available for each of the books in The World in Ancient Times series. Each of the Student Study Guides is designed to be used with the main text at school or sent home for homework assignments. The activities in the Student Study guide will help students get the most out of their history books. Each student study guide includes a chapter-by-chapter two-page lesson that uses a variety of interesting activities to help a student master history and develop important reading and study skills.

Gale, Cengage Learning. important plays from the classical Greek period. Wise, Jennifer, Dionynsus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece, Cornell University Press, 1998. The author discusses the relationship between ...

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Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410351746

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Aristophanes's "Lysistrata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Gale, Cengage Learning. in Greek drama were drawn from the legendary Greek past and helped to define Greek identity. The production of Greek drama was more like opera than modern drama (although none of the music survives).

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410392435

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's "I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

Key points to remember: Greek plays (like Shakespeare) were performed in daylight so no electric light was used or available. The sun was the main theatrical lantern, and the clouds were the only way of dimming it. Unlike theatre today ...

Author: Rhianna Elsden

Publisher: Rhinegold Education

ISBN: 9781783238651

Category: Education

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Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas, Kennikat Press, 1968. Dodds, E. R. “Euripides the Irrationalist” in the Classical Review, Vol. 43, 1929, pp.97104. Dodds, E. R. The Greeks and the Irrational, University of California Press, 1951.

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410349866

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Euripides's "Iphigenia in Tauris," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

the dramatic unities even more closely than did the Greek dramatists, but at the same time, he followed Seneca in using ... In the early sixteenth century, the small body of surviving ancient Greek plays (newly reintroduced to western ...

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410339928

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Gale, Cengage Learning. O'Neill was fascinated with ancient Greek drama. Even in Ile, the crew has some characteristics of a Greek chorus, and the action of the play follows many conventions of Greek drama, including the unity of time ...

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410349224

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Eugene O'Neill's "Ile," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.