Greek Tragedies As Plays For Performance

Author : David Raeburn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119089859
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance written by David Raeburn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. Written by a scholar who combines his academic understanding of Greek tragedy with his singular theatrical experience of producing these ancient dramas for the modern stage Discusses the masters of the genre—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—including similarities, differences, the hybrid nature of Greek tragedy, the significance that each poet attaches to familiar myths and his distinctive approach as a dramatic artist Examines 10 plays in detail, focusing on performances by the chorus and the 3 actors, the need to captivate audiences attending a major civic and religious festival, and the importance of the lyric sections for emotional effect Provides extended dramatic analysis of important Greek tragedies at an appropriate level for introductory students Contains a companion website, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/raeburn, with 136 audio recordings of Greek tragedy that illustrate the beauty of the Greek language and the powerful rhythms of the songs

Author : Samatho kally
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981871391
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedies As Plays for Performance written by Samatho kally and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. Written by a scholar who combines his academic understanding of Greek tragedy with his singular theatrical experience of producing these ancient dramas for the modern stage Discusses the masters of the genre-Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-including similarities, differences, the hybrid nature of Greek tragedy, the significance that each poet attaches to familiar myths and his distinctive approach as a dramatic artist Examines 10 plays in detail, focusing on performances by the chorus and the 3 actors, the need to captivate audiences attending a major civic and religious festival, and the importance of the lyric sections for emotional effect Provides extended dramatic analysis of important Greek tragedies at an appropriate level for introductory students Contains a companion website, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/raeburn, with 136 audio recordings of Greek tragedy that illustrate the beauty of the Greek language and the powerful rhythms of the songs

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134414935
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy in Action written by Oliver Taplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world.

Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0203129407
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre written by Peter D. Arnott and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses. Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context of its own society and of theatre practice in general, with examples from other cultures. Professor Arnott places great emphasis on the practical staging of Greek plays, and how the buildings themselves imposed particular constraints on actors and writers alike. Above all, he sets out to make practical sense of the construction of Greek plays, and their organic relationship to their original setting.

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521666152
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy in Athens written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space for the purposes of any given play. The book shows how performance as a whole was organised and, through informative diagrams and accessible analyses, Wiles brings the theatre of Greek tragedy to life.

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715638262
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorising Performance written by Edith Hall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

Author : David Raeburn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119089883
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance written by David Raeburn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. Written by a scholar who combines his academic understanding of Greek tragedy with his singular theatrical experience of producing these ancient dramas for the modern stage Discusses the masters of the genre—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—including similarities, differences, the hybrid nature of Greek tragedy, the significance that each poet attaches to familiar myths and his distinctive approach as a dramatic artist Examines 10 plays in detail, focusing on performances by the chorus and the 3 actors, the need to captivate audiences attending a major civic and religious festival, and the importance of the lyric sections for emotional effect Provides extended dramatic analysis of important Greek tragedies at an appropriate level for introductory students Contains a companion website, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/raeburn, with 136 audio recordings of Greek tragedy that illustrate the beauty of the Greek language and the powerful rhythms of the songs

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519787
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorising Performance written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus", "Euripides", and "Medea" - have established a distinguished place in the international performance repertoire, and attracted eminent directors including Peter Stein, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, and Katie Mitchell. Staging texts first written two and a half thousand years ago, for all-male, ritualised, outdoor performance in masks in front of a pagan audience, raises quite different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama, including Shakespeare. But the discussion of this development in modern performance has until now received scant theoretical analysis. This book provides the solution in the form of a lively interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, between sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama alike.

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134814135
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragic Theatre written by Rush Rehm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focussed on the audience.

Author : J. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134374100
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Sense of Theatre written by J. Walton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.