Del 13 - Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World

Greek Tragedy

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

AvNancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

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Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further studyExamines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and mythExplores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theoryProvides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practicesIncludes detailed readings of selected plays

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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-15
Mått153 x 231 x 13 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Antal sidor240
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405121613

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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides’ Alcestis.

List of Figures. Preface.Introduction.Part I Tragedy in Its Athenian Context.1 What Was Tragedy?.Definitions of Tragedy.What Did It Do?.Where Did It Come From?.How Were the Plays Performed?.2 Tragedy and the Polis.Democracy.Empire and Hegemony.Performance Setting.Rhetoric.Referentiality.Ideology.Nothing to Do with the City?.3 Tragedy and Greek Religion.Dionysos.Sacred Time and Space.Ritual Practices.Ritual Practice in Tragedy.Greek Gods and Mortals.Tragedy and Myth.Euripides’ Bacchai.Part II Thematic Approaches.4 War and Empire.Aeschylus’ Persians.Aeschylus’ Oresteia.Euripides’ Iphigeneia at Aulis.5 Family Romance and Revenge in the House of Atreus.Euripides’ Elektra.Sophocles’ Elektra.6 Victims and Victimizers.Euripides’ Trojan Women.Euripides’ Hekabe.Euripides’ Medea.7 The King and I.Sophocles’ Antigone.Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos.8 Epilogue: Modern Performances (with Sue Blundell).References.Index

“Engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, … Greek Tragedy is written in an informal, appealing style … .Rabinowitz is able to lead the reader quickly to the central issues of a play, often with reference to key terms or ideas already brought up in the ‘context’ chapters, and then to explore those ideas as pairs of irreconcilables in a way consistent with her overall emphasis on the ambivalences, ambiguities, and unresolved problems tragedy poses to ancient and modern audiences alike.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2008) “As a supplement … [it’s] a vein of gold. [The author’s] nuanced familiarity with every aspect of the topic of Greek drama is breath-taking.” (About.com)