Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Ancient & Classical

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy　is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles.　In part I　Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: 　Ajax,　Antigone, and　Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent feature of political life, namely the antagonism between the heroic commitment to the beautiful and the transcendent on the one　hand, and the community's need for bodily safety and material security on the other....

Die Lysistrate des Aristophanes gehort zu den groen politischen Komodien der Weltliteratur. Aufgefuhrt wurde sie in Athen 411 v. Chr. an einem Dionysosfest wahrend des Peloponnesischen Krieges zwischen Athen und Sparta als ein Pladoyer fur den Frieden. Da die Manner friedensunfahig sind, ubernehmen die Frauen in einer revolutionaren Aktion unter Fuhrung der Lysistrate die Initiative zum Frieden, denn auch Frauen haben "Verstand" und "Einsicht." Indem die alten Frauen den Mannern die Kontrolle uber die Staats- und Kriegskasse nehmen und die jungen Frauen zusammen mit den...

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal...

Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history. It has also been subjected to several fashions of criticism and interpretation over the years, all reflected in, influencing, and influenced by translation. The Gentle, Jealous God introduces the play and surveys its wider reception; examines a selection of English...

Bacchae is one of the most troubling yet intriguing of Greek tragedies. Written during Euripides' self-imposed exile in Macedonia, it tells of the brutal murder and dismemberment of Pentheus by his mother and aunts who, driven temporarily insane, have joined the Bacchae (devotees of the god Dionysus, or Bacchus). The startling plot, driven by Dionysus' desire to punish his family for refusing to accept his divinity, and culminating in the excruciating pathos of a mother's realization that she has killed her son, has held audiences transfixed since its original performance (when it...

Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present time, thanks to Freud's famous phrase 'the Oedipus complex'. The most famous version of the Oedipus myth from antiquity is the Greek play by Sophocles. But there is another version, the Latin drama...