Mask and Performance in 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 Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy write by David Wiles. This book was released on 2007-08-09. Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater - 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 The Art of Ancient Greek Theater write by Mary Louise Hart. This book was released on 2010. The Art of Ancient Greek Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
The Mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy
The Mask in Ancient 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 The Mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy write by Martha Bancroft Johnson. This book was released on 1986. The Mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Materialities of Greek Tragedy
The Materialities of 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 The Materialities of Greek Tragedy write by Mario Telò. This book was released on 2018-06-14. The Materialities of Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.
The Masks of Tragedy
The Masks of 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 The Masks of Tragedy write by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. This book was released on 2013-09-26. The Masks of Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ... to devote enough space to the discussion of each play to allow its special tone and texture to emerge without hindrance and at leisure ... and to include in one collection analyses of plays so different from one another that the accent will come to rest on the variety of the tragic experience rather than on any one narrowly defined norm." Greek tragedy is a vehicle for many different ideas and many different intentions. From the wealth of material that has come down to us the author has chosen six plays for analysis. He reminds us that the plays were written to be seen and heard, and only secondarily to be studied. The listeners expected each play to have a specific objective, and to exhibit its own mood. These the author attempts to recover for us, by listening to what each play, in its own right, has to say. His principal concern is with the tragic diction and the tragic ideas, designed to release certain massive responses in the large theater-going group of ancient Athens. In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience. The essays are not introductory in nature. No space is given, for instance, to basic information about the playwrights, the history of Greek drama, or the special features of the Attic stage. Yet the book addresses itself to classicists and nonclassicists alike. The outgrowth of a series of lectures to nonspecialists, its particular appeal is to students of literature and the history of Western thought. Parallels are drawn between the writings of the philosophers and the tragedies, and attention is paid to certain popular Greek beliefs that colored the tragic formulations. Ultimately, however, the approach is not historical but critical; it is the author's intention to demonstrate the beauty and the craftsmanship of the plays under discussion.
