Choral Tragedy

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516253
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Tragedy written by Claude Calame and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033284
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110706774X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : U. S. Dhuga
Publisher : Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN 13 : 9780739147306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy written by U. S. Dhuga and published by Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Green Moulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Classical Drama written by Richard Green Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dean Frye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Commentary in Shakespearean Tragedy written by Dean Frye and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423519
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eirene Visvardi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285571
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus written by Eirene Visvardi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by examining how certain choruses ‘act’ on their shared feelings. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides’ History. Considered together, these texts undermine the sharp divide between emotion and reason and address a preoccupation that emerges as central in Athenian life: how to channel the motivational power of collective emotion into judicious action and render it conducive to cohesion and collective prosperity. Through their performance of emotion, tragic choruses raise the question of which collective voices deserve a hearing in the institutions of the polis and suggest diverse ways to envision passionate judgment and action.

Author : Nicholas Baechle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585108685
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy, a First Reading written by Nicholas Baechle and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199796270
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy written by Simon Goldhill and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.