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Author : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044401
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Art of Aeschylus written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Harrison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245456
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre written by George Harrison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Author : R. Kerry White
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773488731
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (887 download)
Download or read book An Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical, and Stylistic Terms Relating to Theatre and Drama written by R. Kerry White and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147251971X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus written by Adrian Kelly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force the old man back under Theban control. Oedipus' resistance shows a fierceness in no way dimmed by incapacity, but he also refuses to aid his repentant son, Polyneices, in his coming attack on Thebes, manifesting once more the passion and harshness which mark his character so thoroughly. His mysterious death at the end of the play, witnessed only by Theseus himself, seems the sole fitting end for such an exceptional and problematic figure, transforming Oedipus into one of the 'powerful dead' whose beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive future for the city. This useful companion provides background, context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play.
Author : Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161531262
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)
Download or read book A Heavenly Chorus written by Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that Revelation's hymns function as did Classical tragic choral lyrics insofar as they comment upon or interpret the surrounding narrative has become axiomatic in studies of Revelation. Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler marks an advance in this line of inquiry by offering an exegetical analysis of Revelation's hymns alongside a presentation of the forms and functions of ancient tragic choruses and choral lyrics. Evaluating the hymns in light of the varieties and complexities of ancient tragic choruses, he demonstrate that they are not best evaluated in terms of choral lyrics generally, but in terms of dramatic hymns in particular, insofar as they constitute mythological-theological reflections on the surrounding narrative, and function to situate the surrounding dramatic activity in a particular mythological-theological contexts.
Author : Keith Hopwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719024016
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Ancient Greece and Rome written by Keith Hopwood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Author : Gunther Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523590
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Euripides, "Ion" written by Gunther Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides’ Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition.
Author : Melinda Powers
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382579
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Athenian Tragedy in Performance written by Melinda Powers and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpret and explain Athenian tragedy. A case study of Euripides’s Bacchae, which provides more information about performance than any other extant tragedy, demonstrates possible methods for reconstructing the play’s historical performance and also the inevitable challenges inherent in that task, from the limited sources and the difficulty of interpreting visual material, to the risks of conflating actor with character and extrapolating backward from contemporary theatrical experience. As an inquiry into the study of theatre and performance, an introduction to historical writing, a reference for further reading, and a clarification of several general misconceptions about Athenian tragedy and its performance, this historiographical analysis will be useful to specialists, practitioners, and students alike.
Author : Ann G. Batchelder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847679911
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (799 download)
Download or read book The Seal of Orestes written by Ann G. Batchelder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking inquiry into the poetics of authenticity and authority in Sophocles' Electra, Batchelder looks at Aegisthus and Orestes as rival dramatists, who each use the illusions of the theater in a struggle for control of Mycenae. She demonstrates that the Seal of Orestes-the signet ring of his father-is the recognition token not only for Electra, but also for the entire play, revealing Electra as a self-referential play about play writing.
Author : Mary C. Stieber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189068
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Euripides and the Language of Craft written by Mary C. Stieber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth account of Euripides' relationship with the visual arts demonstrates how frequently the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology.
Author : Laura K. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119257506
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Euripides written by Laura K. McClure and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre. Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides’ plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.
Author : Stephanie Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310916
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse written by Stephanie Nelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse, Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106097
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The Birds written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Aristophanes’ greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1611681812
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater written by William C. Scott and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for those who want to see ancient plays producedÑeither physically in the theater or imaginatively in their own minds.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158510471X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Clouds written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Aristophanes' famous comedy, Clouds, noted for its critique of philosophy, society and education. It includes essays on Old Comedy and the Theater of Dionysus, suggestions for further reading, notes on production, and a map. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Author : James C. Hogan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718657100
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Anthropocosmic Theatre written by James C. Hogan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Classical scholar James C. Hogan provides a general introduction to Aeschylean theater and drama, followed by a line-by-line commentary on each of the seven plays. He draws on a vast range of scholarship and criticism to give modern readers the most accurate picture possible of what ancient audiences saw and understood in the spectacle of Greek tragedy. Hogan places Aeschylus in the historical, cultural, and religious context of fifth-century Athens, showing how the action and metaphor of Aeschylean theater can be illuminated by information on Athenian law, athletic contests, relations with neighboring states, beliefs about the underworld, demons, omens, and divination, and countless other details of Hellenic life. He clarifies terms that might puzzle modern readers, such as place names and mythological references, and gives special attention to textual and linguistic issues: controversial questions of interpretation; difficult or significant Greek words; use of style, rhetoric, and commonplaces in Greek poetry; and Aeschylus's place in the poetic tradition of Homer, Hesiod, and the elegiac poets. Practical information on staging and production is also included, as the author has kept in mind the need of modern readers to visualize the drama in order to understand the text. Though little is known about Greek choreography and music, Hogan stresses their central role and provides notes on entrances and exits, the use of extras, costuming, tableaux, masks, the use of a stage, the interaction of chorus and actors, tone, gesture, style of acting, and spectacle."--Back cover
