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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama

Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408149842
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama written by Kenneth McLeish and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

Author : Ian C. Storey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137630
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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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.

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater

Author : Mary Louise Hart
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060376
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Ancient Greek Theater written by Mary Louise Hart and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art

How Greek Tragedy Works

Author : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000291510
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book How Greek Tragedy Works written by Brian Kulick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Greek Theatre in Context

Author : Eric Dugdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521689427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Greek Theatre in Context written by Eric Dugdale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. This book offers a valuable guide to Greek theatre. It presents a broad selection of key ancient sources, both visual and literary, about all aspects of performance - including actors, masks, stage props and choral dancing - as well as scenes from the plays themselves that offer insights into their staging, plots, and reception. The dramatic brilliance of playwrights such as Sophocles, Aristophanes and Menander is brought to the fore by helpful commentary that provides a framework for the interpretation of Greek drama, fleshes out its cultural contexts, and invites students to consider a range of provocative questions.

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226477614
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater written by Graham Ley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, the author discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. This edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts.

How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226301273
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today written by Simon Goldhill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space and concept -- The chorus -- The actor's role -- Tragedy and politics : what's Hecuba to him? -- Translations : finding a script -- Gods, ghosts, and Helen of Troy

Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama

Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408149869
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama written by Kenneth McLeish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Theatre Performance

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648578
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Greek Theatre Performance written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423519
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy by : P. E. Easterling

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.

A Companion to Greek Tragedy

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405152052
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Tragedy written by Justina Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Figures of Play

Author : Gregory W. Dobrov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195116585
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Play written by Gregory W. Dobrov and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book should be of particular interest to those working in Greek tragedy and comedy and classical literary theory."--Jacket.

Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama

Author : Helaine Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036705
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama written by Helaine Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata are discussed in this lively and scholarly volume. The author's experience teaching these plays to gifted high school students makes this volume particularly useful. The drama festivals, the adaptations of myth, the relevance of Aristotelian criteria, and the political and cultural background of each play are described fully, and the nature of tragedy and comedy, plot construction, stagecraft, theme, character, imagery and individual odes and speeches are analyzed in depth. The 5th century BC witnessed the flourishing of Athenian culture and was one of the most influential periods in history. The achievements of the Greeks at that time forever shaped our political and legal institutions and provided the foundation for Western civilization. At the same time, the world of the Greeks is distant and exotic to contemporary students. The values and beliefs of the Greeks are best represented in the plays that were crafted at that time, and these works continue to be widely read and studied. This book is a valuable introduction to ancient Greek drama. Designed for high school students, undergraduates, and their teachers, this work describes the origins and physical aspects of ancient Greek theatre, discusses Aristotle's Poetics, and analyzes, in ten separate chapters, ten frequently studied Greek plays: Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata. For each there is cultural, political and mythological background, plot synopsis, and analysis of overall structure and important scenes, speeches and odes. The Aristophanes chapters explore comic method and all chapters discuss theme and stagecraft in depth.

The Theater of War

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.

Athenian Tragedy in Performance

Author : Melinda Powers
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382315
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre

Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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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.

Reading Greek Tragedy

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315791
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Reading Greek Tragedy written by Simon Goldhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-05-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy for those who do not read Greek. Combines the best contemporary scholarly analysis of the classics with a wide knowledge of contemporary literary studies in discussing the masterpieces of Athenian drama.