Author : Ian C. Storey
Release : 2008-04-15
Genre : Drama
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A Guide to 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 A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama write by Ian C. Storey. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC. A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theatre; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama. Includes 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.