P. E. Easterling (ed.)

Camb Companion to Greek Tragedy

Herausgeber: Easterling, P. E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The twelve essays in this distinguished collection consider the importance of ancient Greek tragedy as a creative medium. The three main emphases are on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Greece; on critical interpretations of the texts; and on changing patterns of reception, adaption, and performance from antiquity to present.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780521423519
• ISBN-10: 0521423511
• Artikelnr.: 21182713

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Plan of the city of Athens
Part I. Tragedy as an Institution: The Historical Context: 1. 'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life Paul Cartledge
2. A show for Dionysus P. E. Easterling
3. The audience of Athenian tragedy Simon Goldhill
4. The pictorial record Oliver Taplin
Part II. The Plays: 5. The sociology of Athenian tragedy Edith Hall
6. The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication Simon Goldhill
7. Form and performance P. E. Easterling
8. Myth into mythos: the shaping of tragic plots Peter Burian
Part III. Reception: 9. From repertoire to canon P. E. Easterling
10. Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present Peter Burian
11. Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions Fiona Macintosh
12. Modern critical approaches Simon Goldhill
Glossary
Chronology
Texts, commentaries and translations
Works cited
Index.