Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0141961716

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199232512

An illustrated introduction to ancient Greek tragedy, written by one of its most distinguished experts, which provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the dramas. A special feature is an individual essay on every one of the surviving 33 plays.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470693266

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Surviving Greek Tragedy

Surviving Greek Tragedy
Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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.

Reading Greek Tragedy

Reading Greek Tragedy
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1986-05-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521315791

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.

Interpreting Greek Tragedy

Interpreting Greek Tragedy
Author: Charles Segal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501746715

This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134930402

Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?

How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0226301273

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