Tragic Agency In Classical Drama From Aeschylus To Voltaire

Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004467378
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire written by Paul Hammond and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695680
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts. The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of space, sound and silence, his language, and the psychology of those who exercise power or who attempt to maintain their freedom in the face of oppression. The reception and reworking of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations round off this wide-ranging study.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504818
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racine’s Roman Tragedies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.

Author : W. B. Stanford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317698770
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy and the Emotions (Routledge Revivals) written by W. B. Stanford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre. In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in 1993, W.B. Stanford reviews the evidence for ‘emotionalism’ – as the great Attic playwrights presented it, as the actors and choruses expressed it, and as their audiences reacted to it. Sociological aspects of the issue are considered, and the whole range of emotions, not just ‘pity and fear’, is discussed. The aural, visual and stylistic methods of inciting emotion are analysed, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia is examined exclusively in terms of the emotions that it exploits. Finally, Stanford’s conclusions are contrasted with the accepted theories of tragic ‘catharsis’. Greek terms are transliterated and all quotations are in translation, so Greek Tragedy and the Emotions will appeal particularly to those unfamiliar with Classical Greek.

Author : Stratos Constantinidis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332162
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers written by Stratos Constantinidis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays 15 scholars explore new methods and frontiers for studying and staging Aeschylus’ plays by showing the tensions between traditional scholarship and innovative analysis in reception studies and performance studies.

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 : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113884
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Great Greek Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472502345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Theatre written by Rush Rehm and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. 'Theatre, Artifice, Environment' explores the difference between the outdoor theatre of Athens and the artificial interiors of modern performance. 'Theatre and Fear' compares the terrors confronted in Greek tragedy with our own, seemingly distant fears (environmental destruction, dehumanising technology, corporate control of livelihood and culture). 'The Fate of Agency, the Agency of Fate' applies the paradox of human freedom in Greek tragedy to our own paradoxes of powerlessness and mastery. 'Tragedy and Ideology' treats Greek tragedy as an act of resistance, and 'Tragedy and Time' relates Greek tragedy's survival to its moment-to-moment realisation in performance. Part analysis, part polemic, Radical Theatre engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.

Author : Charles Edwyn Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Types of Tragic Drama written by Charles Edwyn Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pearl Cleveland Wilson
Publisher : Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Dramas and Greek Tragedy written by Pearl Cleveland Wilson and published by Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology. This book was released on 1919 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: