Greek Drama And Dramatists
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Greek Drama And Dramatists
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Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Greek Drama And Dramatists written by Alan H. Sommerstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with History categories.
The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H. Sommerstein's accessible study is the ideal introduction. The book begins by looking at the social and theatrical contexts and different characteristics of the three genres of ancient Greek drama. It then examines the five main dramatists whose works survive - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander - discussing their styles, techniques and ideas, and giving short synopses of all their extant plays. Additional helpful features include succinct coverage of almost sixty other authors, a chronology of significant people and events, and an anthology of translated texts, all of which have been previously inaccessible to students. An up-to-date study bibliography of further reading concludes the volume. Clear, concise and comprehensive, and written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Greek Drama and Dramatists will be a valuable orientation text at both sixth form and undergraduate level.
Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama
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Author : Kenneth McLeish
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama written by Kenneth McLeish and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Study Aids categories.
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. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.
Greek Drama
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Author : Pamela Loos
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Greek Drama written by Pamela Loos and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume examines the development of comedy and tragedy in early Greek Drama, with essays that explore the works of many of the original dramatists, including Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.
Modern Greek Theatre
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Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Modern Greek Theatre written by Stratos E. Constantinidis 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.
In this book, the author discusses 40 Greek plays written during the period of nationalization, modernization, and Westernization of the Greeks roughly bounded by their War of Independence in the 1820s and the restoration of the nation-state as a republic in the 1970s. The playwrights are Evanthia Kairi, Dimitrios Hatziaslanis, Kalliroi Siganou-Parren, Costis Palamas, Nikos Kazantzakis, Angelos Sikelianos, Iakovos Kambanellis, Giorgos Skourtis, Costas Mourselas, Stratis Karras, Antonis Matesis, and Loula Anagnostaki. Special attention is paid to the dramas of Kairi, Siganou-Parren, and Anagnostaki, three women who made valuable contributions in articulating and reshaping the concept of Hellenism for their audiences; the author compares their plays to better known ones written by Greek and non-Greek male dramatists who were their contemporaries and dealt with similar issues.
Plays Of The Greek Dramatists
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Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-25
Plays Of The Greek Dramatists written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from Plays of the Greek Dramatists: Selections From Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes In Ancient Attica, as in Elizabethan England, a period of approximately one hundred years served for the full flowering of the drama. In each instance there was a long seed-time, and all glory was not gone when the ten decades had passed. But after Euripides in Greece, and Ben Jonson in England, further development ceased and decadence set in. However, the impress of the "Golden Grecian century" of drama is stamped on all our literature. Lyly, Jonson, Chapman; Dryden, Pope, Johnson; Keats, Shelley, Byron; Swinburne, Browning, Arnold; and in our own day, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Louis MacNeice have, each one, directly or obliquely, been influenced by the Tragic Three, Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and the Comic One, Aristophanes. What we propose to do is to supply the minimum background necessary for the thorough appreciation of the dramatic specimens we have selected. It is worth while to remark, incidentally, that quite as much can be derived from the Greek drama in these translations as can be from the originals (unless one's own translations of the originals are fancied), because, though we have some idea of the quantities of Greek words, we have almost no conception of their sounds. We should begin with a bit of history, since life and literature are, in our period perhaps more than in most others, inextricably entwined. Athens, "the Greece of Greece" as Thucydides called it, was the center of Greek drama, as indeed it was the center of Greek thought and expression and art, in the years between 500 B.C., when Æschylus was writing his first great tragedies, and 400 B.C., when Aristophanes was writing his last great comedies. Those years saw the magnificent exploits of Athens and her confederates in repulsing the first and second Persian invasions. They saw the recovery of Athens and her rise to commercial and military supremacy. Finally, they saw her embarkment on great imperialist ventures (the Peloponnesian War), her decline and fall. A roll-call of the statesmen, sculptors, prose writers, and philosophers of Athens contemporaneous during these hundred years sounds like a who's who of antiquity: Cimon, Pericles, and Alcibiades; Myron and Phidias; Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon; Anaxagoras, Socrates, and Plato. The enormous impulse to the Athenian spirit, and so to Athenian national art, of the political power and commercial ascendancy which resulted from her military victories is, again, remarkably akin to the impulse of energy and pride in the England of the late 16th and early 17th centuries after her defeat of the Spanish Armada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
How Greek Tragedy Works
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Author : Brian Kulick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
How Greek Tragedy Works written by Brian Kulick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Performing Arts categories.
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to classical texts by equipping them with ways in which they can unpack the hidden meanings of these plays. He focuses on three of the key texts of Greek theatre: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Euripides' The Bacchae, and Sophocles' Electra, and uses them to tease out the core principles of the theatre-making and storytelling impulses. By encouraging us to read between the lines like this, he also enables us to read these and other Greek tragedies as artists' manifestos, equipping us not only to understand tragedy itself, but also to interpret what the great playwrights had to say about the nature of plays and drama. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who finds themselves confronted with tackling the Greek classics, whether as a reader, scholar, student, or director.
A Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama
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Author : Kenneth McLeish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama written by Kenneth McLeish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Greek drama categories.
This is a meticulously researched survey into the place and purpose of theatre in ancient Greece. It examines the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them.
Heinz Uwe Haus And Theatre Making In Cyprus And Greece
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Author : Heinz-Uwe Haus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-25
Heinz Uwe Haus And Theatre Making In Cyprus And Greece written by Heinz-Uwe Haus and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This book presents to the reader a selection of the considerable amount of material written and published in relation to Heinz-Uwe Haus's productions of Brecht’s plays and Brechtian productions by other dramatists, especially ancient Greek drama, in Cyprus and Greece since his production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle marked the launch of the Cyprus National Theatre in 1975 after the country’s political turmoil that had culminated in the Turkish invasion. This includes material written by Haus at the time for his cast, announcements of the productions in the media, newspaper reviews and academic articles about the productions, conference contributions, and reflections by cast members (both professional actors and university faculty) and designers (set, costume, light, music). His work in Cyprus and Greece led to further collaborations on productions of ancient Greek plays across the world.
Greek Drama In Its Theatrical And Social Context
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Author : Peter Walcot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Greek Drama In Its Theatrical And Social Context written by Peter Walcot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Literary Criticism categories.
Greek Tragedy
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Author : H.D.F. Kitto
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-04-01
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 2011-04-01 with History categories.
Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto’s words ‘We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.’ Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus’s ‘Oresteia’, the plays of Sophocles including ‘Antigone’ and ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’; and Euripides’s ‘Medea’ and ‘Hecuba’, Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists.