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Autore |
Storey Ian Christopher <1946-> |
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Titolo |
A guide to ancient Greek drama / / Ian C. Storey and Arlene Allan |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-78684-222-X |
1-118-45511-8 |
1-118-45514-2 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell guides to classical literature |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greek drama - History and criticism |
Greek literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; List of Figures; List of Maps and Plans; Abbreviations and Signs; Map; 1: Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama; Drama; Drama and the poets; Why Athens?; The time-frame; The evidence; The Dramatic Festivals; The Theatrical Space; The Performance; Conventions of the space; "Theater of the mind"; The performers; Drama, Dionysos, and the Polis; Drama and the polis; Drama's political content; Drama and democracy; Recommended Reading; Greek drama; Greek theater; Greek drama (visual) |
Drama and dionysosDrama and politics; 2: Greek Tragedy; On the Nature of Greek Tragedy; The tragic plot-line; Character in tragedy; Theater of the word; The parts of tragedy; Early tragedy (534-472); Aeschylus; Aeschylus and the trilogy; The Prometheus-plays; The dramas of Aeschylus; Character in Aeschylus; The chorus in Aeschylus; The style of Aeschylus; Gender-themes in Aeschylus; Aeschylus' moral and divine universe; Aeschylus and his age; Sophokles; The plays of Sophokles; Sophokles as dramatist; Sophokles and dramatic character; The chorus in Sophokles; Irony in Sophokles |
Sophokles' divine and moral universeSophokles and the polis; Euripides; Euripides' plays; Euripides the innovator; Euripides and |
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drama; Euripides and psychology; Euripides and women; Euripides and the gods; Euripides and the polis; Euripides and the "new music"; The Other Tragedians; Recommended Reading; Greek tragedy; Aeschylus; Sophokles; Euripides; 3: The Satyr-Drama; Cyclops; Recommended Reading; 4: Greek Comedy; Origins; Old Comedy (486 - ca. 385); Comedy of the great idea; The chorus in Old Comedy; The language of comedy; The costume of Old Comedy; The structure of Old Comedy |
The theme of the Golden AgeArtistic parody; Comedy of ideas; Domestic comedy; Political and topical comedy; "To make fun of by name"; The Generations of Old Comedy; The early years; Epicharmos; Kratinos and the second generation; Old Comedy: the next generation; Old Comedy: the final generation; Aristophanes; Greek Comedy and the Phlyax-vases; Middle Comedy; Menander and New Comedy; Recommended Reading; Greek comedy; Aristophanes; Old Comedy; Later comedy; 5: Approaching Greek Drama; Formal Criticism; Interdisciplinary Approaches; Visual Interpretations; Reception Studies; Recommended Reading |
StructuralismMyth and ritual; Psychoanalytical; Cognitive sciences; Gender; Iconographic studies; Ancient and modern stagecraft; Reception studies; Modern performances; 6: Play Synopses; Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai); Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes); Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides); Aeschylus' Oresteia; Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe); Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies); Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus DesmoteĢs); Sophokles' Ajax (Aias); Sophokles' Antigone |
Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis) |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr-dramaSurveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on 'lost' playwrightsExamines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama's relationship with the worship of |
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