 | Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 20) In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative chor...
 |  | Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: April 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 0739125893 | ISBN-13: 978-0739125892| Edition: 2 Described as "a powerful, brilliant, and original study" when first published, this second edition of Froma Zeitlin's experiment in decoding the Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the light of contemporary theory now updates her explorations of the tragic struggle between Eteocles and Polyneices, the doomed sons of Oedipus, with a new preface, a new afterword, and the addition of the relevant Greek texts. The mutual self-destruction of the enemy brothers in this last act of the cursed family is pr...
|  | Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation
Publication Date: September 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521865220 | ISBN-13: 978-0521865227| Edition: 1 Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this book, first published in 2007, David Wiles provided the first book-length study of this question. He surveys the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray masks as part of a process of transformation, and that masks were never seen in the fifth century as autonomous objects. Wiles goes on to examine experiments with the mask in twentieth-century theatre, tracing a tension between the use of masks for ...
|  | Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy: A Study of Animal Choruses
Publication Date: December 31, 2010Aristophanes' Birds, Wasps, and Frogs offer the best-known examples of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but sixth-century vase-paintings of men costumed as cocks, bulls, and horses indicated that comedies were only the last phase of a longer tradition.This book suggests that although the earlier masquerades may have had ritual origins, they should be seen also as products of the culture of the archaic aristocratic symposium.The animal choruses of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition.More...
|  | Aristophanes: An introduction
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0715634526 | ISBN-13: 978-0715634523An accessible and lively introduction to the work of one of the world s greatest comic writers, this book covers the key subjects of staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanes plays. It opens up exciting and contentious areas of Aristophanic scholarship in a way that is engaging and readily comprehensible a non-specialist audience, never losing sight of the fact that Aristophanes plays are vibrant literary texts, designed primarily to appeal to...
|  | Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Publication Date: February 9, 2004Greek tragedy stages stories -- ones already familiar to their original audiences. Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how Aeschylus typically shaped these sprawling stories into dramatic form. Then, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult la...
|  | Shakespeare's Tragedy of Cymbeline (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 21, 2012Niggard of space, prodigal of thought, he uses the closest compression, they the widest expansion: his aim is to crowd the greatest possible wealth of mind into a given time ;theirs, to fill the largestpossible time with a certain modicum of matter. The difference is greatly owing, no doubt, to the different spirit of the present age, which requires the popular author to be a miser of his own time, and a spendthrift of the reader s. The Poet sstructure of language and mode of expression are in keeping with this policy, and indeed took their growth under its dis...
|  | Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition
Publication Date: December 15, 2011This 2009 book contains thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy looking 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 re-creation 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 se...
|  | Plautus: Rudens, Curculio, Casina (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors)
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|  | Three Dramas of Old Age: Elektra, Philoktetes, Oidipous at Kolonos, Trackers
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Series: Everyman's Library Sophocles created these three tragedies in his 80s, when the faction-ridden Athenian democracy was heading towards final defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Elektra dramatizes the increasing madness and savagery of the avenging heroine; in Philoktetes Odysseus tries to impose a philosophy of pure expediency on the young captain Neoptolemos; and in Oidipous at Kolonos, the blind and polluted Oidipous comes to Athens to die. He rewards his benefactors, and destroys those who seek to enlist him for their own selfish ends. The volume also ...
|  | Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence
Publication Date: February 9, 1995| ISBN-10: 0198182694 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182696This book surveys Shakespeare's comedies, charting the influence upon them of the ancient playwrights Plautus and Terence. Miola analyzes these sources, and places the comedies in their Renaissance context, as well as in the larger context of European theater. Discovering new indebtedness, and discerning new patterns in previously attested borrowings, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy presents an integrated and comprehensive assessment of the complex interactions of the Classical, Shakesperian, and other Rena...
|  | Aristophanes Four Major Plays: Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Archarnians
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|  | The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Eumenides)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005The importance of Æschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy as we understand it. Like other writers of his time, he acted in his own plays, and trained the chorus in their dances and songs; and he did much to give impressiveness to the performances by his development of the accessories of scene and costume on the stage. "The Ores...
|  | Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Vol. II
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Great Translations for Actors Series Aeschylean tragedy represents the earliest extant Greek tragedy of the late-6th and 5th centuries B.C.E., as well as being one of the pinnacles of the art form. It is the product of an Athens that in the late 6th century devised and implemented a form of government known as democracy; not of a parliamentary or representative sort, but a direct democracy, one in which the Athenian citizen governed himself, which is what democracy means: rule by the people. Along with this gift to civilzation came trial by jury, and f...
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Release Date: December 29, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1883 edition by Garnier frères, Paris. ...
|  | Terence: The Eunuch, Phormio, The Brothers: A Companion to the Penguin Translation (Classical Studies Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Classical Studies Series This new book introduces three of Terence's most entertaining and widely read plays. The selection demonstrates his versatility as a playwright: the brilliant farce of "The Eunuch," the subtle comedy of "Phormio" and the more serious theme of the relationship between fathers and sons explored in "The Brothers." A detailed and well-researched introduction sets Terencein his context in the Roman theatre, while the commentaires, with their useful line by line analysis, provide the reader with valuable information about the social...
|  | Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: June 6, 2011| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 45) As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than “fame” or “glory.” Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative—principally an “oral history,” a “life story” or ultimately an “oral tradition.” When broken down into its twin constituents, “words” and “actions” or “deeds,” a hero’s kleos serves to define him as a fully gend...
|  | Aeschylus in an Hour (Playwrights in an Hour)
Publication Date: April 8, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936232065 | ISBN-13: 978-1936232062BOOK SYNOPSISA thirty-five-year-old Aeschylus enlisted in the Athenian army and fought in the battle of Marathon (490 BCE) and Salamis (480 BCE). These battles were not only the prelude to Athenian military hegemony in the region but also to Athenian cultural dominance. Aeschylus himself would be part of that cultural revolution. Writing the great masterpiece, Oresteia, he took up a theme that first dawned on him at Salamis: the deep wisdom of the eternal justice which rules the world, as Thucydides wrote.Setti...
|  | Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and The Arbitration (Epitrepontes) (Classical Texts)
Release Date: February 28, 2011| ISBN-10: 0856688339 | ISBN-13: 978-0856688331'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries thereafter the plays were thought to be irretrievably lost, failing to become part of the canon of writers that generations of copyists deemed worthy of transmitting to us. It was only in the 20th century that large sections of the plays began to emerge f...
|  | ANTIGONE
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 184842017X | ISBN-13: 978-1848420175A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone’s brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Should Antigone obey Creon, or must she follow her conscience and lay her beloved brother to rest? ...
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