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Author : Howard Baker
Publisher : New York, Russell and Russell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Induction to Tragedy written by Howard Baker and published by New York, Russell and Russell. This book was released on 1965 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185539X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy written by Jennifer Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.
Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493493
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Greek Tragedy written by Ruth Scodel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background information, helps readers appreciate, enjoy and engage with the plays themselves, and gives them an idea of the important questions in current scholarship on tragedy. Ruth Scodel seeks to dispel misleading assumptions about tragedy, stressing how open the plays are to different interpretations and reactions. In addition to general background, the book also includes chapters on specific plays, both the most familiar titles and some lesser-known plays - Persians, Helen and Orestes - in order to convey the variety that the tragedies offer readers.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192802356
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction written by Adrian Poole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians, and journalists? This work shows the relevance of tragedy to the modern world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244192
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours written by Gregory Nagy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
Author : Howard Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Induction to Tragedy; A Study in Development of Form in Gorboduc, The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus written by Howard Baker and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696787
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Roman Tragedy written by Anthony J. Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and Accius, as well as Seneca and his post-Neronian successors, Anthony J. Boyle delves into detailed discussion on every Roman tragedian whose work survives in substance today. Roman Tragedy examines: the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions the history of generic form and change the debt that Rome owes to Greece, and text owes to text the birth, development and death of Roman tragedy in the context of the cities evolving, institutions, ideologies and political and social practices tragedy proper and the historical drama (fabula praetexta), which the Romans allied to tragedy. With parallel English translations of Latin quotations, this seminal work not only provides an invaluable resource for students of theatre, Roman political history and cultural history, but it is also accessible to all interested in the social dynamics of writing, spectacle, ideology and power.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Aristotle is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry". In this reflections Aristotle includes verse drama – comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play – as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry. The similarities and differences are being described in this work.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tragedy written by Adrian Poole and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why does tragedy matter? This book approaches this question through a close reading of Greek tragedies that is designed both for readers with Greek and those with none. It explores Greek plays alongside three of Shakespeare's tragedies: "Macbeth", "Hamlet" and "King Lear".
Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470765852
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Tragedy written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending Explores the past and future of the tragic form
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462431
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
Author : Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502344
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Tragic Pathos written by Dana LaCourse Munteanu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Dramatic Theory written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Rice Henn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136472207
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) written by Thomas Rice Henn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called tragedy’ in the modern world; and to suggest a synthesis in terms of the Christian tradition. This is a reissue of the corrected second edition of the work, first published in 1966.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577626
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction written by Adrian Poole and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and journalists over the last two and a half millennia? Why do we still read, re-write, and stage these old plays? This book argues for the continuities between 'then' and 'now'. Addressing questions about belief, blame, mourning, revenge, pain, witnessing, timing and ending, Adrian Poole demonstrates the age-old significance of our attempts to make sense of terrible suffering. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521671491
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy written by Jennifer Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.
Author : Roger Pickering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy written by Roger Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
