Athenian Tragedy
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Tragedy And Athenian Religion
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Author : Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2003
Tragedy And Athenian Religion written by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.
Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. A contextual analysis of the perceptions of fifth-century Athenians suggests that the ritual elements clustered in the tragedies of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles provided a framework for the exploration of religious issues, in a context perceived to be part of a polis ritual. This reassessment of Athenian tragedy is based both on a reconstruction of the Dionysia and the various stages of its development and on a deep textual analysis of fifth-century tragedians. By examining the relationship between fifth-century tragedies and performative context, Tragedy and Athenian Religion presents a groundbreaking view of tragedy as a discourse that explored (among other topics) the problematic religious issues of the time and so ultimately strengthened Athenian religion even at a time of crisis in very complex ways-- rather than, as some simpler modern readings argue, challenging and attacking religion and the gods.
Greek Tragedy In Action
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Author : Oliver Taplin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-10-04
Greek Tragedy In Action written by Oliver Taplin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-04 with History categories.
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.
The Soul Of Tragedy
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Author : Victoria Pedrick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005
The Soul Of Tragedy written by Victoria Pedrick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Drama categories.
'The Soul of Tragedy' brings together scholars to offer perspectives on the Greek tragedy. The collection pays homage to this genre by offering an exploration into the oldest form of dramatic expression.
Greek Tragedy
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language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1977
Greek Tragedy written by and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Greek drama (Tragedy) categories.
Greek Tragedy
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Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Greek Tragedy written by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays
Surviving Greek Tragedy
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Author : Robert Garland
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2004
Surviving Greek Tragedy written by Robert Garland and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Drama categories.
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators and theatre directors. Over the course of this 2,400-year period, the plays were at different times performed, copied, quoted, emended, excerpted, analysed, taught, translated, censored, adapted, or merely left to moulder in a library, as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage, and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world, taking this fascinating story right up to the present. Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre, London.
Athenian Tragedy A Study In Popular Art
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Author : Thomas Dwight Goodell
language : en
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Release Date : 1969
Athenian Tragedy A Study In Popular Art written by Thomas Dwight Goodell and has been published by Kennikat Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Drama categories.
Greek Tragedy
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Author : H. D. F. Kitto
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-19
Greek Tragedy written by H. D. F. Kitto and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with History categories.
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.
Athena S Justice
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Author : Rebecca Futo Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Athena S Justice written by Rebecca Futo Kennedy and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
Athena is recognized as an allegory or representative of Athens in most Athenian public art except in tragedy. Perhaps this is because tragedy is rarely studied as a public art form or, perhaps, because her character is not static in tragedy. Although Athena's characterization changes to fit the needs of a particular drama, her clear connection with justice remains true throughout and suggests that she is always the representative of the city and its institutions. Athens, the city Athena protected, experienced a dramatic transformation in the fifth century: its political institutions, physical landscape, military power and international prestige underwent dynamic change. Athena, its goddess and its symbol, simultaneously transformed as well, although not always for the better. Athena's Justice follows the question of civic identity and ideology in Athenian tragedy, focusing specifically on the link between tragedy and its influence upon identity creation and promotion during the period when Athens was asserting itself as an imperial power. Through examination of tragedies in which Athena appears, this book traces the process by which Athens came to identify itself with its legal system, symbolized by Athena on stage, and then suffered the corruption of that system by the exercise of imperial power. Athena's Justice is essential reading not just for classicists and ancient historians, but for anyone interested in the interaction between art and politics and the process by which human beings in any period seek to shape their identity as a people.
Greek Tragedy
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Author : Edith Hall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-01-21
Greek Tragedy written by Edith Hall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the plays. Edith Hall argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it always depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects, This enquiry was played out in the bright sunlight of open-air theatre, which became a key marker of the boundary between living and dead. The first half of the book is divided into four chapters which address the social and physical contexts in which the plays were performed, the contribution of the poets, actors, funders, and audiences, the poetic composition of the texts, their performance conventions, main themes, and focus on religion, politics, and the family. The second half consists of individual essays on each of the surviving thirty-three plays by the Greek tragedians, and an account of the recent performance of Greek tragic theatre and tragic fragments. An up-to-date 'Suggestions for further reading' is included.