Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516253
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Choral Tragedy
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516253
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516253
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
Author: Renaud Gagné
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110706774X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110706774X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
Author: Renaud Gagné
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033284
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033284
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy
Author: U. S. Dhuga
Publisher: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9780739147306
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy challenges the commonly held view that choruses are marginalized by the roles they play in classical Athenian tragedy. Focusing on those tragedies that feature a chorus representing old men who are elders of the community where the action is taking place, Dhuga argues that these elders, as elders, are not necessarily marginal and can even become in some ways central to the represented action.
Publisher: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9780739147306
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy challenges the commonly held view that choruses are marginalized by the roles they play in classical Athenian tragedy. Focusing on those tragedies that feature a chorus representing old men who are elders of the community where the action is taking place, Dhuga argues that these elders, as elders, are not necessarily marginal and can even become in some ways central to the represented action.
The Ancient Classical Drama
Author: Richard Green Moulton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Choral Commentary in Shakespearean Tragedy
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Author: P. E. Easterling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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.
Greek Tragedy, a First Reading
Author: Nicholas Baechle
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585108685
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This is an intermediate to advanced textbook for first reading of Greek tragedy. This book draws from selections from both Euripides’ and Sophocles’ Electra. It is designed to provide students with a structured access to reading interesting Greek at the advanced level, and as it appears in works of Greek tragedy. It provides a careful introduction to the language of tragedy, Greek poetry as found in Electra, and to the nature and forms of Greek tragedy. The book focuses on material relevant for translation and understanding the unique form of drama through translation.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585108685
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This is an intermediate to advanced textbook for first reading of Greek tragedy. This book draws from selections from both Euripides’ and Sophocles’ Electra. It is designed to provide students with a structured access to reading interesting Greek at the advanced level, and as it appears in works of Greek tragedy. It provides a careful introduction to the language of tragedy, Greek poetry as found in Electra, and to the nature and forms of Greek tragedy. The book focuses on material relevant for translation and understanding the unique form of drama through translation.
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199796270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This title presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles' tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past. The book explores Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist while investigating how the 19th-century critics developed a specific understanding of tragedy.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199796270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This title presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles' tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past. The book explores Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist while investigating how the 19th-century critics developed a specific understanding of tragedy.
Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus
Author: Eirene Visvardi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004285571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Emotion in Action offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by focusing on the performance of collective emotion. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004285571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Emotion in Action offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by focusing on the performance of collective emotion. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides.