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Dionysus Since 69

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155541X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus Since 69 written by Edith Hall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.

Surviving Greek Tragedy

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Greek Tragedy written by Robert Garland and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators and theatre directors. Over the course of this 2,400-year period, the plays were at different times performed, copied, quoted, emended, excerpted, analysed, taught, translated, censored, adapted, or merely left to moulder in a library, as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage, and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world, taking this fascinating story right up to the present. Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre, London.

The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian. 1787-1833

Author : Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian. 1787-1833 written by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy

Author : Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062020
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy by : Johanna Hanink

Download or read book Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy written by Johanna Hanink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.

Seven Against Thebes

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195070070
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Seven Against Thebes written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.

Tragedy on the Comic Stage

Author : Matthew C. Farmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063071X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy on the Comic Stage written by Matthew C. Farmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies: Euripides appears repeatedly as a character in these plays, jokes about tragedy and tragic poets abound, and parodies of tragedy frequently underlie whole scenes and even the plots of these plays. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries. Farmer organizes these fragments under two rubrics. First, he discusses fragments that show characters discussing tragedy, use tragic poets as characters, or make reference to the dramatic festivals; these fragments, Farmer argues, develop a "culture of tragedy" within Greek comedy, a consistent set of tropes and devices that depict tragedy as part of the world inhabited by the characters of these plays. Second, he assembles fragments that show tragic parody, imitations of tragedy that render tragic language humorous or ironic by juxtaposing it with the base characters and quotidian circumstances that make up Greek comedy. Tragedy on the Comic Stage then illustrates these features of fragmentary paratragedy within three intact Aristophanic comedies: Wasps, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Wealth. These new readings of Aristophanes' plays show the value of reading Aristophanes in conjunction with the comic fragments, and insist on the subtlety and complexity of Aristophanic paratragedy.

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524747955
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us written by Simon Critchley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians: being a series of articles on the Greek Drama, Greek Metres, and Canons of Criticism. Collected and arranged by ... J. R. M., etc

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Author : John Richardson Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians: being a series of articles on the Greek Drama, Greek Metres, and Canons of Criticism. Collected and arranged by ... J. R. M., etc written by John Richardson Major and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean Tragedian 1787-1833. With a Portrait

Author : J ..... Fitzgerald Molloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean Tragedian 1787-1833. With a Portrait written by J ..... Fitzgerald Molloy and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Euripides' The Bacchae

Author : Sirish Rao
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367658
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Euripides' The Bacchae written by Sirish Rao and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contemporary retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae-the last extant Greek tragedy-relates the classic myth of the god Dionysus wrecking vengeance on Thebes, the city of his birth and site of his mortal mother Semele's horrible death. Dionysus brings an army of women into the mountains surrounding the city and casts a spell over the city's own female population, leading them to abandon their husbands, sons, and fathers and to follow the god into the countryside and engage in his forbidden revels. Pentheus, king of Thebes, leads an army against the god, only to be defeated in battle and, as he secretly watches the revels, to be torn limb from limb by the frenzied Bacchae. Original illustrations silk-screened on handmade paper accompany the story. This unique handcrafted book will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and the art of fine, contemporary bookmaking.

An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493493
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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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.

The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship

Author : Robert C. Pirro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144112506X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship written by Robert C. Pirro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the political significance of theories of tragedy and ordinary language uses of "tragedy" offers a fresh perspective on democracy in contemporary times.

Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy

Author : Sorana-Cristina Man
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527548732
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy written by Sorana-Cristina Man and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some versions of the myth, Iphigenia was due to be immolated by her father on Artemis’ altar before the beginning of the Trojan War, but was replaced by the goddess with a deer, at the last moment. This is the most staggering, and perhaps best-known, rite of sacrifice in Greek tragedy. Perfectly symmetrical, the end of this war is marked by another human tribute, Polyxena. Some of the topics investigated in this volume include whether these sacrifices, as well as similar ones such as those of Macaria and Menoeceus, the husbands of the Danaides, the hero Pentheus, and Aegisthus, are all a way to balance things out, or whether they cause an even greater unbalance.

Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century

Author : Vayos Liapis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038553
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century written by Vayos Liapis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

An American Tragedy

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026894936
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.

A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians

Author : John Richardson Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians written by John Richardson Major and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: