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Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd written by Paul Cartledge and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock gap project.
Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Clouds written by Aristophanes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clouds is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it can be considered the world's first extant "comedy of ideas" and is considered by literary critics to be among the finest examples of the genre. The play also, however, remains notorious for its caricature of Socrates and is mentioned in Plato's Apology as a contributor to the philosopher's trial and execution.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503961
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes Plays: 2 written by Aristophanes, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre.Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.
Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 161451125X
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Ancient Comedy and Reception written by S. Douglas Olson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Author : John E. Thorburn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816074984
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama written by John E. Thorburn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Author : Ian C. Storey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137630
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama written by Ian C. Storey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC. A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theatre; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama. Includes 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.
Author : Aristophanes,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503953
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes Plays: 1 written by Aristophanes, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.
Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre written by Marianne McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Eleazer Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes written by Louis Eleazer Lord and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616145765
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Greek Search for Wisdom written by Michael K. Kellogg and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy, and democracy. They also made remarkable advances in science, medicine, and mathematics. In the author’s view, what ties this wide-ranging intellectual ferment together is a restless search for wisdom. The author looks at ten outstanding examples of Greek wisdom, offering fresh and engaging portraits of the epic poets (Homer, Hesiod); dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes); historians (Herodotus, Thucydides); and philosophers (Plato, Aristotle) against the background of Greek history. In each case he asks what the author has to tell us— regardless of genre—about our place in the world and how we should live our lives. By surveying some of the highest peaks of ancient civilization, the author argues that we gain perspective on the historical terrain that lies below. This book presents an eloquent and convincing case that a study of the Greek classics, as Gustave Flaubert explained, makes us "greater, wiser, purer."
Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492927
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Sophocles and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.
Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN 13 : 9788773043103
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Imaginary Polis written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Mint Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781513205809
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plays of Aristophanes (425 BC-388 BC) is a collection of comedies by Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Noted for his exploration of fantasy, sexuality, and contemporary politics, Aristophanes was a leading figure in Old Attic Comedy whose award-winning plays continue to delight and inspire nearly 2,500 years after they were first performed. This collection includes some of his best-known work, showcasing his talent as an unmatched humorist and shrewd social commentator whose words drew ire from Athenian general Cleon, Socrates, and Plato. In The Clouds, an indebted Athenian aristocrat enters a philosophical school despite his advanced age in order to sharpen his argumentative skills. There, he learns the recent teachings of Socrates and gets a chance to meet the legendary figure himself. Despite his earnest desire for enlightenment, Strepsiades proves shockingly inept and is forced to beg his young son for help. The Birds follows a pair of middle-aged men on a walk through the wilderness, where they encounter a former king who has been transformed into a bird. When a group of enraged birds holds them captive, suspecting the men of ill-intent, the two devise a plan to inspire the birds to challenge the Olympians and assert their power in the universal order. In Lystistrata, the title heroine leads a courageous campaign to put an end to the brutal Peloponnesian War. Her bold plan involves encouraging women throughout the warring city states of Greece to withhold sex from men until the violence is stopped. The Plays of Aristophanes is an invaluable collection of comedies from a leading playwright of Ancient Greece, a man whose work has survived for centuries while inspiring countless writers, readers, and audiences around the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aristophanes' The Plays of Aristophanes is a classic of Ancient Greek literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist. This collection includes Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and The Clouds, a satire on contemporary philosophy.
