Alphabetically arranged entries provide reference information regarding ancient Greek and Roman plays and playwrights, as well as figures from classical mythology and common dramatic themes.
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 0816052026
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Alphabetically arranged entries provide reference information regarding ancient Greek and Roman plays and playwrights, as well as figures from classical mythology and common dramatic themes.
The Facts On File Companion to Classical Drama focuses on the eight major classical playwrights, all their surviving plays, the major characters in the important tragedies (e.g., Agamemnon, Heracles, Electra, Orestes) and Aristophanic ...
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9780816074983
Category: Literary Criticism
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Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Ministers saw drama as a way to unite or build a community. the Judson Memorial church in greenwich Village dedicated a room ... of classical dramas, is now known as csc (classical stage company). it has flourished and seen its artistic ...
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438129662
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 657
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Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
The Facts on File companion to classical drama, 1279 The Facts on File companion to the American novel, 1353 The Facts on File companion to the American short story, 1342 The Facts on File companion to the British short story, ...
Author: Jack O'Gorman
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838912126
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 312
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Focusing on new reference sources published since 2008 and reference titles that have retained their relevance, this new edition brings O’Gorman’s complete and authoritative guide to the best reference sources for small and medium-sized academic and public libraries fully up to date. About 40 percent of the content is new to this edition. Containing sources selected and annotated by a team of public and academic librarians, the works included have been chosen for value and expertise in specific subject areas. Equally useful for both library patrons and staff, this resource Covers more than a dozen key subject areas, including General Reference; Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics; Psychology and Psychiatry; Social Sciences and Sociology; Business and Careers; Political Science and Law; Education; Words and Languages; Science and Technology; History; and Performing Arts Encompasses database products, CD-ROMs, websites, and other electronic resources in addition to print materials Includes thorough annotations for each source, with information on author/editor, publisher, cost, format, Dewey and LC classification numbers, and more Library patrons will find this an invaluable resource for current everyday topics. Librarians will appreciate it as both a reference and collection development tool, knowing it’s backed by ALA’s long tradition of excellence in reference selection.
Author: Rebecca Futo KennedyPublish On: 2017-09-25
In Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre, edited by George W. M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis, 131–48. Leiden: Brill. Reeve, C. D. C. 2014. ... Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric. ... The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama.
Author: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004348820
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 654
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been revisioned and adapted over the last 2500 years, focusing both on his theatrical reception and his reception in other media and genres.
He has authored a translation and commentary on Euripides' Alcestis (2001) and The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama (2005). He has published a number of articles on Euripidean tragedy, Aristophanic comedy and a variety of ...
Author: Heike Bartel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351538183
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 353
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Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contemporary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study than by any single take on her character. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume are Brian Arkins, Angela J. Burns, Anthony Bushell, Richard Buxton, Peter A. Campbell, Margherita Carucci, Daniela Cavallaro, Robert Cowan, Hilary Emmett, Edith Hall, Laurence D. Hurst, Ekaterini Kepetzis, Ivar Kvistad, Catherine Leglu, Yixu Lue, Edward Phillips, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Paula Straile-Costa, John Thorburn, Isabelle Torrance, Terence Stephenson, and Amy Wygant.
Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200–600 ad. ... In Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism, edited by R. Hunter and I. ... The Facts on File: Companion to Classical Drama.
Author: Daniel S. Richter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199837489
Category: History
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Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of this rapidly developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g. gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the Classical traditions and early Christianity). The Handbook also contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance, however, this volume is designed to help to situate the textual remains within the period and its society, to describe and circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and throughout tries to keep the contextual demands in mind. In its scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian cultural production, and one that keeps a sharp focus on situating these texts within their socio-cultural context.
The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama. New York: Facts on File. Tilley, Morris Palmer. 1950. Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.
Author: Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher: Skenè. Texts and Studies
ISBN: 9791221017069
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 300
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The Mediterranean of Shakespeare’s dramas is a vast geopolitical space. Historically, it spans from the Trojan war to Greek mythology and the ancient Roman empire; geographically, from Venice and Sicily to Cyprus and Turkey, from Greece to Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa. But it is also the Mediterranean of Renaissance Italian cities and Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful example of how exotic frontiers for an English gaze may be replaced by closer yet different cultural Mediterranean frames. The volume offers studies on the circulation of the story of Romeo and Juliet and its ancient archetypes in early modern Europe, from Greece to Italy, France and Spain, as well as on contemporary receptions and performances of Shakespeare’s play in Sicily, the Balkans, Israel and Jordan.
In this text he articulated the difference between romantic theater and classical tragedy, a genre he called artifi- cial. Modern romantic drama, he argued, is closer to life in its mixture of the sublime and the grotesque, ...
Author: Karen L. Taylor
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9780816074990
Category: Electronic books
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French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.