Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Ancient & Classical

Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of "Greek Tragic Theatre" (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in fifth-century Athens, Rush Rehm encourages classicists, actors, and directors to approach Greek tragedy by considering its original context.

Emphasizing the political nature of tragedy as a theatre of, by, and for the "polis, "Rehm characterizes Athens as a "performance culture, "one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import and moment....

Ancient Greek tragedy is ubiquitously studied and researched, but is generally considered to have ended, as it began, in the fifth century BC. However, plays continued to be written and staged in the Greek world for centuries, enjoying a period of unprecedented popularity and changing significantly from the better known Classical drama. Hellenistic drama also heavily influenced the birth of Roman tragedy and the development of other theatrical forms and literature (including comedies, mime and Greek romance).

Hellenistic Tragedy: Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey...

The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies.

Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers imitated and alluded to other poetry, the author reveals the immense dependence on Homer which can be seen throughout the corpus of Attic tragedy. It is argued that the practice of the art of...

Euripides' story of a father moved to murder his daughter is one that has been reinvented and retold anew throughout history. The Iphigenia Quartet includes four responses to this classical tragedy--each play a reimagining of this story of familial catastrophe from the differing perspectives of the key characters in the drama: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, and the Chorus.