Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Ancient & Classical

The Prometheus Bound has proved to be both the most problematic and the most influential of extant Greek tragedies. Especially during the past two hundred years the character here created has transcended the boundaries of nationality, ideology, and race: Goethe, Shelley, Marx, and--to judge by other published translations--modern Russia and China have in turn been fascinated by this being who is tortured by the gods for furthering the progress of humanity. Yet the interpretation of the play itself and its relation to the group of now-lost plays with which it was originally produced...

In addition to providing the first English translation of 'Kichaka-Vadha', this volume offers the most detailed scholarly analysis to date of the anticolonial Marathi classic, drawing on a comprehensive range of archival documents.

The documentary material comes from colonial-era police, judicial, administrative, legislative, and newspaper sources. The commentary provides a broad overview of the formation of the modern Marathi theatre as well as a close reading of 'Kichaka-Vadha' itself. It illuminates the major events and personalities alluded to in the play and highlights the...

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.

Den Mythos davon, dass Orestes und Elektra fur ihren getoteten Vater Agamemnon Rache nehmen und seine Morderin, ihre eigene Mutter Klytaimestra, umbringen, haben die drei beruhmtesten attischen Tragiker - Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides - auf die Buhne gebracht. Sophokles konzentriert sich in seinem Stuckvor allemauf das Leid der isoliert bei ihrer verhassten Mutter lebenden Elektra. Seine Tragodie hat besonders seit dem 19. Jahrhundert zahlreiche moderne Dramatiker (wie etwa Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Giraudoux oder Jean-Paul Sartre) zu Neufassungen inspiriert. Der...

Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only students of classical literature but also those concerned with wider problems of critical theory and the comic tradition.

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original...

By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami--an important playwright, actor, critic, and teacher of no--offer fresh insight into Aeschylus' use of actors, language, and various elements of stage presentation.

Relatively little documentation apart from the texts of the plays is available for the Greek theater of the...

Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between "poetry"--the exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and "philosophy"--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to...

Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflections, ranging from the 16^th century to the 20^th, on one of the three great Attic tragedians, the author of perhaps the most famous play of all time.

With the entire notion of 'Western culture' under duress, the need to establish continuity from antiquity to modernity is as pressing as ever. Each essay, selected by Professor Dawe, explores a theme or concept derived from the tragic vision of the Sophoclean universe which is still of relevance today. An...

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian s women plays in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes.

Three plays are focused upon: "Lysistrata," "Thesmophoriazusae," and "Ecclesiazusae." All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women s rights, the value of women s...