Reperforming Greek Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reperforming Greek Tragedy write by Anna A. Lamari. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Reperforming Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Reperforming Greek Tragedy
Reperforming Greek Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reperforming Greek Tragedy write by Anna A. Lamari. This book was released on 2018. Reperforming Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Classical Greek Tragedy
Classical Greek Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Greek Tragedy write by Judith Fletcher. This book was released on 2021-12-16. Classical Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts. Reconstructing how audiences in fifth-century BCE Athens created meaning from the performance of tragedy at the dramatic festivals sponsored by the city-state and its wealthiest citizens, it considers the context of Athenian political and legal structures, gender ideology, religious beliefs, and other social forces that contributed to spectators' reception of the drama. In doing so it focuses on the relationship between performers and watchers, not only Athenian male citizens, but also women and audiences throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. This book traces the historical development of these dynamics through three representative tragedies that span a 50 year period: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, and Euripides' Helen. Topics include the role of the chorus; the tragic hero; recurring mythical characters and subject matter; Aristotelian assessments of the components of tragedy; developments in the architecture of the theater and their impact on the interactions of characters, and the spaces they occupy. Unifying these discussions is the observation that the genre articulates a reality beyond the visible stage action that intersects with the characters' existence in the present moment and resonates with the audience's religious beliefs and collective psychology. Human voices within the performance space articulate powerful forces from an invisible dimension that are activated by oaths, hymns, curses and prayers, and respond in the form of oracles and prophecies, forms of discourse which were profoundly meaningful to those who watched the original productions of tragedy.
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama write by Anna A. Lamari. This book was released on 2020-08-10. Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.
Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century
Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century write by Vayos Liapis. This book was released on 2019. Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.
