Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: XVI, 336 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521887854

Content: "Thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy take a fresh look at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic repertoire, in the idea of the tragic canon in antiquity, and in the making and infinite recreation of the tragic tradition in the Renaissance and beyond. The introduction looks at the paradigm shifts during the twentieth century in the theory and practice of Greek theatre, in order to gain a perspective on the current state of play in Sophoclean studies. The following three sections explore respectively the way that Sophocles' tragedies provoked and educated their original Athenian democratic audience, the language, structure and lasting impact of his Oedipus plays, and the centrality of his oeuvre in the development of the tragic tradition in Aeschylus, Euripides, ancient philosophical theory, fourth-century tragedy and Shakespeare."--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Sophocles ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr. ; Tragödie ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: XVI, 336 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521887854

Note: Literaturverz. S. 289 - 316 und Index , Sophocles : the state of play / Simon Goldhill and Edith Hallpt. 1. Between audience and actor -- The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre / Simon Goldhill -- 'The players will tell all' : the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Ismene Lada-Richards -- Deianeira deliberates : precipitate decision-making and trachiniae / Edith Hall -- pt. 2. Oedipus and the play of meaning -- Inconclusive conclusion : the ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus / Peter Burian -- The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus / Chris Carey -- The logic of the unexpected : semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) / Michael Silk -- The French Oedipus of the inter-war period / Fiona Macintosh -- pt. 3. Constructing tragic traditions -- Theoretical views of Athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC / Kostas Valakas -- Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Angus Bowie -- Feminized males in Bacchae : the importance of discrimination / Richard Buxton -- Hector's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy / Oliver Taplin -- Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Christopher Pelling. , Sophocles : the state of play , Section A : between audience and actor ; The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in sophoclean theatre , The players will tell all : the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes , Deianeira deliberates : precipitate decision-taking and trachiniae , Section B : Oedipus and the play of meaning ; Inconclusive conclusion : the ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus , The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus , The logic of the unexpected : semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) , The french Oedipus of the inter-war period , Constructing tragic traditions : theoretical views of athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC , Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia , Feminized males in Bacchae : the importance of discrimination , Hektor's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy , Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Sophocles ; Tragödie ; Griechisch ; Tragödie ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Hall, Edith 1959-