Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

Name: Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
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ISBN: 9780521423519

ISBN-10: 0521423511

ISBN-13: 9780521423519

Edition: 1997

Authors: P. E. Easterling

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Seven distinguished scholars attempt to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism and performance of Greek tragedy. They examine changing patterns of reception and performance from antiquity to the present.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


Plan of the city of Athens



Tragedy as an Institution: The Historical Context



'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life




A show for Dionysus




The audience of Athenian tragedy




The pictorial record Oliver




The Plays



The sociology of Athenian tragedy




The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication




Form and performance




Myth into mythos: the shaping of tragic plots




Reception



From repertoire to




Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present




Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions




Modern critical approaches



Glossary


Chronology


Texts, commentaries and translations


Works cited


Index