Reperforming Greek Tragedy

Reperforming Greek Tragedy
Author: Anna A. Lamari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 9783110561173

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Reperforming Greek Tragedy

Reperforming Greek Tragedy
Author: Anna A. Lamari
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110559935

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An inexplicably understudied field of classical scholarship, tragic reperformance, has been surveyed in its true dimension only in the very recent years. Building on the latest discussions on tragic restagings, this book provides a thorough survey of reperformance of Greek tragedy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, also addressing its theatrical, political, and cultural context. In the fifth and fourth centuries, tragic restagings were strongly tied to cultural mobility and exchange. Poets, actors, texts, vases, and vase-painters were traveling, bridging the boundaries between mainland Greece and Magna Graecia, boosting the spread of theater, facilitating theatrical literacy, and setting a new theatrical status quo, according to which popular tragic plays were restaged, by mobile actors, in numerous dramatic festivals, in and out of Attica, with or without the supervision of their composers. This book offers a holistic examination of ancient reperformances of tragedy, enhancing our perception of them as a vital theatrical practice that played a major part in the development of the tragic genre in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: John Tresidder Sheppard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1911
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN:

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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317761456

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This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: * why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? * why did Sophocles develop character drawing? * why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good? Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

Refiguring Tragedy

Refiguring Tragedy
Author: Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110660008

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This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time. It seeks to explore the ways in which the plays in question were reworked, discussed, represented or reperformed within varying frameworks. Notably enough, research on the reception of tragic fragments could yield insight not only into the receiving work, but also into the facets of the source text that have attracted attention in its subsequent refigurations. It could thus shed light on the ideological and cultural routes through which these fragmentary tragedies were received by the poet, the scholar, the artist, the viewer, the reader and the spectator in each case. The complex process of the refiguration of a fragmentarily preserved play within different contexts could form a yardstick of its cultural power and elucidate the dynamics of fragmentation in modern times. Τhe volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception, cultural and performance studies, as well as to readers fascinated by Greek tragedy and its vibrant afterlife.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Gilbert Norwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1920
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN:

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Adapting Greek Tragedy

Adapting Greek Tragedy
Author: Vayos Liapis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2021-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107155703

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Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.

Greek Tragedy in Action

Greek Tragedy in Action
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2003-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134414935

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Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world.

The Living Art of Greek Tragedy

The Living Art of Greek Tragedy
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2003-07-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0253028280

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Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested in performing Greek drama, and McDonald's engaging descriptions offer the necessary background to all those who desire to know more about the ancient world. With a chapter on each of the three major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), McDonald provides a balance of textual analysis, practical knowledge of the theatre, and an experienced look at the difficulties and accomplishments of theatrical performances. She shows how ancient Greek tragedy, long a part of the standard repertoire of theatre companies throughout the world, remains fresh and alive for contemporary audiences.