Female Acts In Greek Tragedy
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Female Acts In Greek Tragedy
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Author : Helene P. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Female Acts In Greek Tragedy written by Helene P. Foley and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.
Female Acts In Greek Tragedy
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Author : Helene P. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2002-12-08
Female Acts In Greek Tragedy written by Helene P. Foley and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-08 with Drama categories.
Although classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic or social autonomy, the tragedies often represent them as influential social and moral forces. This work studies this apparent contradiction, showing how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore issues.
Female Acts In Greek Tragedy
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Author : Helene P. Foley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Female Acts In Greek Tragedy written by Helene P. Foley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece."--BOOK JACKET.
The Female Characters Of Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
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Author : P. J. Finglass
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-02
The Female Characters Of Fragmentary Greek Tragedy written by P. J. Finglass and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-02 with Drama categories.
Sheds new light on the topic of women in tragedy by focusing on neglected evidence from the fragments.
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages
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Author : Tanya Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages written by Tanya Pollard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Drama categories.
"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
Making Silence Speak
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Author : André Lardinois
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-25
Making Silence Speak written by André Lardinois and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-25 with History categories.
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Reimagining Greek Tragedy On The American Stage
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Author : Helene P. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-06-26
Reimagining Greek Tragedy On The American Stage written by Helene P. Foley and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with History categories.
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.
Greek Tragic Style
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Author : R. B. Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-10
Greek Tragic Style written by R. B. Rutherford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with Drama categories.
An exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.
Becoming Female
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Author : Katrina Cawthorn
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Becoming Female written by Katrina Cawthorn and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Drama categories.
"Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure of Heracles in Sophocles' "The Women of Trachis", an exemplary specimen of the tragic process of becoming female, who exhibits many of the central issues considered in the book. The male hero is, in the course of the play, undone and feminised, while the instability of masculine identity is revealed.This theme of becoming female, and the resulting failure to circumscribe the feminine and return to any secure and triumphant concept of masculinity, is argued to be a discernible feature of the genre of tragedy. The inconclusive and disconcerting nature of tragic endings contribute to the dislocation of the tragic male and emphasise the Dionysian disturbance of the male hero.Moreover, this state of the dissolute male hero has textual and theatrical consequences, extending to affect the audience so that it too becomes feminised by the processes of tragedy."Becoming Female" is an important work for scholars and students of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Drama and Theatre Studies, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies.
The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy
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Author : Martin Revermann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-12
The Cambridge Companion To Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Drama categories.
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.