This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times.
Author: P. E. Easterling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521423511
Category: History
Page: 414
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This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times.This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521760287
Category: History
Page: 523
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This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.The socio-political significance of ancient tragedy after the fourth century BC is bound up with the appropriation of Greek culture in the early Roman Republic and the enduring appeal of Greek tragic paradigms under the Romanemperors.
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139827256
Category: Drama
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This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.Greek tragedy and the British stage, 1566–1997. ... Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. ... Cambridge. Hardie, P. 1997. Virgil and tragedy. In C. Martindale, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virgil.
Author: Justina Gregory
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781405175494
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 578
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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 bibliographyThe Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 3–35. Chambers, J. 2010, 'Actor Training Meets Historical Thinking', in E. Margolis & L. Tyler Renaud (eds), The Politics of American Actor Training, ...
Author: Zachary Dunbar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319954714
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 237
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This book offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theatre history, and classical reception. Its interdisciplinary reach means that it is uniquely positioned to identify, interrogate, and de-mystify the clichés which cluster around Greek tragedy, giving acting students, teachers, and theatre-makers the chance to access a vital range of current debates, and modelling ways in which an enhanced understanding of this material can serve as the stimulus for new experiments in the studio or rehearsal room. Two theoretical chapters contend that Aristotelian readings of tragedy, especially when combined with elements of Stanislavski’s (early) actor-training practice, can actually prevent actors from interacting productively with ancient plays and practices. The four chapters which follow (Acting Sound, Acting Myth, Acting Space, and Acting Chorus) examine specific challenges in detail, combining historical summaries with a survey of key modern practitioners, and a sequence of practical exercises.A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity.
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107189058
Category: History
Page: 587
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A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.Cartledge, “ 'Deep Plays': Theatre as Process in Greek Civil Life” in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P. E. Easterling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 27. However, as Griffith notes, Antigone appeals to ...
Author: Tina Chanter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438437569
Category: Philosophy
Page: 279
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Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.58–76 Goldhill, S. (2006a) ' The Language of Tragedy: Rhetoric and Communication ' in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Goldhill, S. (2006b) 'Modern Approaches to Greek Tragedy' in ...
Author: Matthew Shipton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781474295086
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 208
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This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on ancient attitudes to youth. Focusing on famous plays, such as Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Bacchae, alongside lesser known tragedies such as Euripides' Heraclidae and Orestes, Shipton uncovers compelling evidence to show that the complex and often paradoxical views we hold about youth today can also be found in the ancient society of classical Athens. Shipton argues that the prominence of young people in tragedy throughout the fifth century reflects the persistent uncertainty as to what their role in society should be. As the success of Athens rose and then fell, young characters were repeatedly used by tragic playwrights as a way to explore political tensions and social upheaval in the city. Throughout his text, Shipton reflects on how negative conceptualisations of youth, often expressed via the socially constructed 'gang' are formed as a way in which paradoxical views on youth can be contained.(1997) 'Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy', in P. E. Easterling (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy, Cambridge, 324–47. (2000) 'Civic ideology and the problem of difference. The politics of Aeschylean tragedy, ...
Author: Fabian Meinel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316240168
Category: History
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Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis of the important role which pollution and its counterparts - purity and purification - play in tragedy. It argues that pollution is central in the negotiation of tragic crises, fulfilling a diverse array of functions by virtue of its qualities and associations, from making sense of adversity to configuring civic identity in the encounter of self and other. While primarily a literary study providing close readings of several key plays, the book also provides important new perspectives on pollution. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students not only in classics and literary studies, but also in the study of religions and anthropology.philology', in Barbara Goffed. and intro., History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama. ... Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs (eds) The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings. ... The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy.
Author: Mark Chou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 9781441190482
Category: Political Science
Page: 208
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This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy dramatized a variety of stories, characters, and voices drawn from reality, especially from those marginalized by Athens's democracy. It brought up dissident figures through its multivocal form, disrupting the perception of an ordered reality. Today, this helps us grasp the reality of Athenian democracy, that is, a system steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The book reads through two renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to show how such multivocal dramas actually address not only the pitfalls of our contemporary democracy, but also a range of environmental, security, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today. Written in a very accessible manner, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy is a lively book that will appeal to any political science and international relations student interested in issues of democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.