 | 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...
 |  | Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
Publication Date: June 1989| Series: Theories of Representation and Difference "A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism." -- Margaret W. Ferguson"... provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... " -- Rocky Mountain Review"... provocative and fascinating... " -- Seventeenth-Century News"This book is boldly and originally conceived... " -- Comparative Literature StudiesJed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideologica...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Series: Plays for Performance Series Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. In Mr. Rudall's new translation it becomes beautifully playable. ...
|  | 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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|  | Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: November 17, 1999| ISBN-10: 0847697339 | ISBN-13: 978-0847697335This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to th...
|  | The Trojan Women: A Play by Euripides Translated from the Greek into English and Adapted in Response to Artistophanes' and Aristotle's Criticism
Publication Date: March 2002Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN is considered by many to bethe greatest of anti-war plays. Rubenstein, whose translation ofAGAMEMNON, has been acclaimed, has now translated Euripides'masterpiece in clear American English. Aristophanes and Aristotle (andsome modern critics as well) objected to the original prologue andchoral odes on the grounds that they were irrelevant to theplay. Rubenstein has written a prologue and choral odes that arerelevant, in addition to being lucid. In addition, Rubenstein hasadded stage directions, as he did in the case of AGAMEMNON whichenh...
|  | 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...
|  | Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade: Vol. 1: The Comedies
Publication Date: July 25, 2000| Series: Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade (Book 1) This is the first time the complete plays of the Marquis de Sade have been translated into English. With introductions by the translators. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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: Seven Against Thebes (Duckworth Comapnins to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0715634666 | ISBN-13: 978-0715634660One of the earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices, the exile, and Eteocles, reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies, but the expedition is doomed, and the meaning of Oedipus enigmatic curse on his sons ultimately becomes clear in their simultaneous fratricide and the extinction of the Theban house. T...
|  | 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...
|  | Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Greek Commentaries Ser)
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|  | Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy
Publication Date: December 26, 2011Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies ...
|  | Judith: Lyric Drama for Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 23, 2012The storms of Asshur burst oer Judah shills, Their rolling thunder every vallev fills, Like rain we fall. Osend us shelter from the fiery blast, And clear the sky that death has overcast. Spread Thy strong wings oer us till storms are passed, Yea, spare us all! Oshow me. Lord, etc. Enter A chior and Assyrian Soldiers. OziAS and Chorus return. SCENE III. A chior, Hark to Holofernes, Asshur smighty chief, Captain of all armies! Give his words belief! Empty are your cisterns, Dry each spring and well. That eer gave you water: Yield, OI srael! Yield, and Holofernes...
| | Aeschylus II: The Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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