The Masks Of Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
Download The Masks Of Tragedy PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Masks Of Tragedy book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Masks Of Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-09-26
The Masks Of Tragedy written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
"What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ... to devote enough space to the discussion of each play to allow its special tone and texture to emerge without hindrance and at leisure ... and to include in one collection analyses of plays so different from one another that the accent will come to rest on the variety of the tragic experience rather than on any one narrowly defined norm." Greek tragedy is a vehicle for many different ideas and many different intentions. From the wealth of material that has come down to us the author has chosen six plays for analysis. He reminds us that the plays were written to be seen and heard, and only secondarily to be studied. The listeners expected each play to have a specific objective, and to exhibit its own mood. These the author attempts to recover for us, by listening to what each play, in its own right, has to say. His principal concern is with the tragic diction and the tragic ideas, designed to release certain massive responses in the large theater-going group of ancient Athens. In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience. The essays are not introductory in nature. No space is given, for instance, to basic information about the playwrights, the history of Greek drama, or the special features of the Attic stage. Yet the book addresses itself to classicists and nonclassicists alike. The outgrowth of a series of lectures to nonspecialists, its particular appeal is to students of literature and the history of Western thought. Parallels are drawn between the writings of the philosophers and the tragedies, and attention is paid to certain popular Greek beliefs that colored the tragic formulations. Ultimately, however, the approach is not historical but critical; it is the author's intention to demonstrate the beauty and the craftsmanship of the plays under discussion.
New Theatre Quarterly 67 Volume 17 Part 3
DOWNLOAD
Author : Clive Barker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-10-26
New Theatre Quarterly 67 Volume 17 Part 3 written by Clive Barker 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 2001-10-26 with Drama categories.
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theater history has a contemporary relevance, that theater studies need a methodology, and that theater criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theater studies.
Hellenistic Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Hellenistic Tragedy written by Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ancient Greek tragedy is ubiquitously studied and researched, but is generally considered to have ended, as it began, in the fifth century BC. However, plays continued to be written and staged in the Greek world for centuries, enjoying a period of unprecedented popularity and changing significantly from the better known Classical drama. Hellenistic drama also heavily influenced the birth of Roman tragedy and the development of other theatrical forms and literature (including comedies, mime and Greek romance). Hellenistic Tragedy: Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey offers a comprehensive picture of tragedy and the satyr play from the fourth century BCE. The surviving fragments of this dramatic genre are presented, alongside English translations and critical analysis, as well as a survey of the main writers involved and an exploration of the genre's formation, later influence and staging. Key features of the plays are analysed through extant texts and other evidence, including plots based on contemporary political themes, mythical subjects and Biblical themes, and features of metre and language. Practical elements of Hellenistic performance are also discussed, including those which have become the hallmarks of ancient theatre: actors' costumes of long robes, kothurnoi and high onkos-masks, the theatre building and the closed stage on the logeion. Piecing together a synthetic picture of Hellenistic tragedy and the satyr play, the volume also examines the key points of departure from earlier drama, including the mass audience, the mutual influence of Greek and Eastern traditions and the changes inside the genre which prove Hellenistic drama was an important stage in the development of the European theatre.
Brecht And Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Martin Revermann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Brecht And Tragedy 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 2021-12-16 with Drama categories.
Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.
Tragic Props And Cognitive Function
DOWNLOAD
Author : Colleen Chaston
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Tragic Props And Cognitive Function written by Colleen Chaston and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Psychology categories.
By applying aspects of cognitive psychology to a study of three key tragic props, this book examines the importance of visual imagery in ancient Greek tragedy. The shield, the urn and the mask are props which serve as controls for investigating the connection between visual imagery and the spectators' intellectual experience of tragic drama. As vehicles for conceptual change the props point to a function of imagery in problem solving. Connections between the visual and the cognitive in tragedy, particularly through image shape and its potential for various meanings, add a new perspective to scholarship on the role of the visual in ancient performance. These connections also add weight to the importance of imagery in contemporary problem solving and creative thought.
Greek Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
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.
The Masks Of Anthony And Cleopatra
DOWNLOAD
Author : Marvin Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2006
The Masks Of Anthony And Cleopatra written by Marvin Rosenberg and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
"In his analysis, Marvin Rosenberg sets out to steer a path between the "extremes" of Rome and Egypt and all they stand for: and to explore the relentless "to and back" confrontation of their different sets of values which leads ultimately to destruction."
Sophocles And The Tragedy Of Athenian Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : D. G. Beer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-03-30
Sophocles And The Tragedy Of Athenian Democracy written by D. G. Beer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Athenian democracy of the 5th century B.C. created the most important political theatre of western culture. Sophocles, the most successful tragic playwright of the age, was a radical innovator who produced his tragedies to present to his audience complex moral, social, and political issues of a kind that they might be faced with in their various legal and political assemblies. Beer examines Sophocles as a political playwright against the background of Athenian democracy, breaking new ground by showing the importance of the mask for understanding Sophoclean tragedy and redefining the notion of skenographia, or setting the scene. He concludes that Sophocles revolutionized the concept of dramatic space. The Athenian tragic theatre was deeply political and played an important and active role in the life of Athenian democracy. This book presents an introduction to the political nature of Greek tragedy and Sophoclean tragedy in an effort to shed new light on the dramatic works of the 5th century playwright. As Aristotle noted, Sophocles' two most important innovations were the introduction of the third actor and skenographia, which brought tragedy to its fully evolved form. Beer argues that although his use of the third actor has been widely understood, his use of skenographia has not. Carefully exploring the true sense of this method of using dramatic space, Beer brings a new understanding to the works of this old master.
A Companion To Greek Tragedy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Justina Gregory
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-28
A Companion To Greek Tragedy written by Justina Gregory 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 2008-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
Greek Tragedy A First Reading
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nicholas Baechle
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-13
Greek Tragedy A First Reading written by Nicholas Baechle and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is an intermediate to advanced textbook for first reading of Greek tragedy. This book draws from selections from both Euripides’ and Sophocles’ Electra. It is designed to provide students with a structured access to reading interesting Greek at the advanced level, and as it appears in works of Greek tragedy. It provides a careful introduction to the language of tragedy, Greek poetry as found in Electra, and to the nature and forms of Greek tragedy. The book focuses on material relevant for translation and understanding the unique form of drama through translation.