Monody in Euripides : character and the liberation of form in late Greek tragedy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Catenaccio, Claire (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Θέματα: Ευριπίδης > 480-406 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Μουσική στο θέατρο > Ελλάδα > Ιστορία > Μέχρι το 1500.

The solo singer takes center stage in Euripides' late tragedies. Solo song - what the Ancient Greeks called monody - is a true dramatic innovation, combining and transcending the traditional poetic forms of Greek tragedy. At the same time, Euripides uses solo song to explore the realm of the in...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction : the song at work
• 1. Ion: monody as Agon
• 2. Iphigenia among the Taurians: memory and movement
• 3. Phoenician women: the lyric voice of a shattered house
• 4. Orestes: monody as messenger speech
• Conclusion: freedom and form
• Appendix actor's song in the extant plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.