 | Octavia: A Play Attributed to Seneca (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
Publication Date: July 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521117720 | ISBN-13: 978-0521117722| Edition: 1 The historical tragedy Octavia focuses on Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' daughter by Valeria Messalina, and on the emperor's subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. This book includes a full-length introduction, a new edition of the text based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts, and a detailed commentary dealing with textual, linguistic, and literary points. Spanning three days in June AD 62, the tragic action of the play ends with Octavia's deportation to the island of P...
 |  | Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology
Publication Date: March 28, 1989Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic way, subscribes to the philosophy of the Stoic school, scholars and critics have long been asking the question whether the plays, also, could be regarded as transmitters of Stoic thought. Various answers, ranging from a categorical no to an uneasy yes, have been giv...
|  | Oedipus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0865164592 | ISBN-13: 978-0865164598 0 Frank Corsaro, Artistic Director, Juilliard Opera Center It is astonishing to me that one could still be excited by so venerable a text as Seneca's Oedipus. Such was the case with my encounter with Michael Rutenberg's rendition of this masterwork. Highly imaginative, eminently actable, and obviously a work of fine scholarship and devotion. It is my hope that it will be performed in theatres worldwide.Leon Golden, Florida State University The translation itself is admirably fluent and contemporary in idiom...
|  | The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publication Date: August 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199534489 | ISBN-13: 978-0199534487Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of the madness, often in accordance with contemporary thinking on...
|  | Jason and Medea: A Whirlwind of Ruin
Publication Date: May 31, 2005While the ending of the Golden Fleece myth, Medea’s killing of her beloved children, is well known, her story and her reasoning are not. She can be understood through her deeds and words, though she may not be forgiven for her act. Jason, the hero of the Argo who wrested the Golden Fleece from a tyrant at the end of world, in this work is revealed as a man with flaws.Jason and Medea fully explores the ancient Greek tragedy, following the story line and philosophical trails. The gaps in the ancient telling are filled with imaginative invention without the ai...
|  | The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance
Publication Date: June 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521543525 | ISBN-13: 978-0521543521This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to ...
|  | Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation
Publication Date: July 19, 2012Why 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 possession and for alienation, and he identifies a preference among ...
|  | Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0292722206 | ISBN-13: 978-0292722200 Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by Roman culture in shaping the perception of theatricality on and o...
|  | Poet & Artist: Imaging the Aeneid (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: July 31, 2004| ISBN-10: 0865165858 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165854Poet and Artist is a winning combination of a CD that features the Ogilby plates (included by John Dryden in his translation of the Aeneid) and a student edition of the AP* lines of Vergil's epic, complete with questions about Vergil'Â’s Latin masterpiece. By juxtaposing the images on the plates, the text of Vergil, and the useful questions to be used as guidelines, the authors have enabled students to increase their comprehension of the Latin passage and its textual details and to reflect more critic...
|  | Montaigne and Shakspere (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 5, 2012For a good many years past the anatomic study of Shakspere, of whicli a revival seems now on foot, lias been somewliat out of fashion, as compared with its vogue in the palmy days of the New Shakspere Society in England, and the years of the battle between the iconoclasts and the worshippers in Germany. When Mr. Fleay and Mr. Spedding were hard at work on the metrical tests; when Mr. Spedding was subtly undoing the chronological psychology of Dr. Furnivall; when the latter student was on his part undoing in quite another style some of the judgments of Mr. Swinbu...
|  | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances
Publication Date: April 27, 2004Hrotsvit was the first dramatist of Christianity, the first female Saxon poet, the first Germanic author to employ the Faust theme, and one of the first Western writers to compose a Christian epic. The essays in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim examine the historical, cultural, legal, and political contexts of Hrotsvit's works, locating her opus within the tenth-century aristocratic and clerical intellectual milieu.This collection contextualizes Hrotsvit's works with respect to heroic, sexual, domestic, behavioural, linguistic, theological, and hierarchical aspects of ...
|  | On the Hymn To Zeus in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (American Classical Studies)
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|  | Measure for Measure (New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare)
Publication Date: January 1, 1980| ISBN-10: 0873522842 | ISBN-13: 978-0873522847Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Measure for Measure has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Measure for Measure aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatev...
|  | Oh, Lady! Lady (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 4, 2012In the order of their axipearance) PARKER Constance Binncy MOLLIE FARRINGDON Vivienne Segal MRS. FARRINGDON Margaret Dale WILLOUGHBY FINCH Carl Randall HALE UNDERWOOD -H arry CB rowne SPIKE HUDGINS (W illoughby Finch svoirt) Edward A beles FANNY WELCH Florence Shirley MAY BARBER Carroll Mc Comas CYRIL TWOMBLY Reginald i Mason WILLIAM WATTY Harry Fisher MISS LETTICE ROMAYNE Lois Whitney MISS LOTTA POMMERY Bobby Brewster MISS DELLA CATESSEN May Elsie MISS HALLIE BUTTE lsie Lewis MISS SAL MUNN Dorothy Allan MISS MARIE SCHINO Billie Booker MISS MOLLIE GATAWNEY Mildr...
|  | Seneca: Oedipus (0)
Publication Date: February 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0199547718 | ISBN-13: 978-0199547715Seneca's Oedipusis a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually complex, and theatrically spectacular; its themes include the psychology of guilt, fear and reason, the ethics and limits of power, the order of fate and history, and the nature of tragic theatre. The impact of Seneca's Oedipuson the European dramatic tradition has...
|  | The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Mentor Series)
Release Date: September 1, 1958| Series: Mentor Series Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles.SparkNotes'™ motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.· They're easier to understand, because the...
|  | Roman Drama: The Plays of Plautus and Terence, The Plays of Seneca
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|  | Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds
Publication Date: October 22, 1992| ISBN-10: 0195070178 | ISBN-13: 978-0195070170This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric...
|  | Greek Tragedy: Modern Essays in Criticism
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|  | The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0299072940 | ISBN-13: 978-0299072940| Edition: 1 In The People and the King, John Leddy Phelan reexamines a well-known but long misunderstood event in eighteenth-century Colombia. When the Spanish colonial bureaucratic system of conciliation broke down, indigenous groups resorted to armed revolt to achieve their political ends. As Phelan demonstrates in these pages, the crisis of 1781 represented a constitutional clash between imperial centralization and colonial decentralization. Phelan argues that the Comunero revolution was n...
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