Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 392 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511998928
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
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Deep plays
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Show for Dionysus
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Audience of Athenian tragedy
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Pictorial record
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Sociology of Athenian tragedy
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Language of tragedy
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Form and performance
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Myth into muthos
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From repertoire to canon
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Tragedy adapted for stages and screens
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Tragedy in performance
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Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521412452
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521423519
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521412452
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521412455
