How Greek tragedy works : a guide for directors, dramaturges, and playwrights /
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to c...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2021.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction: 115th and Broadway, circa 410 BCE
- Part. I: Conversing with shadows: on the interpretation of ancient texts :
- Raising the dead; or, theatre as thanatology
- Antigone. A journey to the underworld of the text: how to read a Greek tragedy
- Dictionary for the ghost language of the tragic
- Part. II: Toward an alternative poetics, or, what our three greek tragedians can tell us about the nature and function of the tragic
- Aeschylus's Agamemnon, or, first principles
- Sophocles' Electra; or, the dialectics of the tragic
- Euripides' The Bacchae, or, recognition as re-cognition
- Part III: Further thoughts on form
- Tragedy as "the metaphor of an intellectual intuition": Hölderlin on the poetics of the tragic
- Among the ruins: what the fragments can tell us about Greek tragedy
- Coda: Back to the light of day
- Appendices.
