The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy
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The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 1
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 1 written by Matthew Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Drama categories.
Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other types of evidence. Matthew Wright offers an authoritative two-volume critical introduction and guide to the lost tragedies. This first volume examines the remains of works by playwrights such as Phrynichus, Agathon, Neophron, Critias, Astydamas, Chaeremon, and many others who have been forgotten or neglected. (Volume 2 explores the lost works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.) What types of evidence exist for lost tragedies, and how might we approach this evidence? How did these plays become lost or incompletely preserved? How can we explain why all tragedians except Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides became neglected or relegated to the status of 'minor' poets? What changes and continuities can be detected in tragedy after the fifth century BC? Can the study of lost works and neglected authors change our views of Greek tragedy as a genre? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Including English versions of previously untranslated fragments as well as in-depth discussion of their significance, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works accessible for the first time.
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 2
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-13
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 2 written by Matthew Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-13 with Drama categories.
The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for 'reading' lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors – or of Greek tragedy as a whole – if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time.
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 1
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy Volume 1 written by Matthew Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Drama categories.
Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other types of evidence. Matthew Wright offers an authoritative two-volume critical introduction and guide to the lost tragedies. This first volume examines the remains of works by playwrights such as Phrynichus, Agathon, Neophron, Critias, Astydamas, Chaeremon, and many others who have been forgotten or neglected. (Volume 2 explores the lost works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.) What types of evidence exist for lost tragedies, and how might we approach this evidence? How did these plays become lost or incompletely preserved? How can we explain why all tragedians except Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides became neglected or relegated to the status of 'minor' poets? What changes and continuities can be detected in tragedy after the fifth century BC? Can the study of lost works and neglected authors change our views of Greek tragedy as a genre? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Including English versions of previously untranslated fragments as well as in-depth discussion of their significance, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works accessible for the first time.
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : Matthew E. Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
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The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : Matthew Ephraim Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy written by Matthew Ephraim Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Electronic books categories.
"The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for 'reading' lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors - or of Greek tragedy as a whole - if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2019
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A Guide To Ancient Greek Drama
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Author : Ian C. Storey
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-11-08
A Guide To Ancient Greek Drama written by Ian C. Storey 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 2013-11-08 with Drama categories.
This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging,systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction toancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to thirdcentury BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy,comedy, and satyr-drama Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides,Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on‘lost’ playwrights Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic artforms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater;drama’s relationship with the worship of Dionysos; politicaldimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greekplay
Euripides Orestes
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Author : Matthew Wright
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Euripides Orestes written by Matthew Wright 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 Literary Criticism categories.
"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because "Orestes" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of "Orestes"?
The Lost Sophocles
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Author : Akiko Kiso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Lost Sophocles written by Akiko Kiso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Greek drama (Tragedy) categories.