| Description |
xvii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
1. 'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life / Paul Cartledge -- 2. A show for Dionysus / P. E. Easterling -- 3. The audience of Athenian tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- 4. The pictorial record / Oliver Taplin -- 5. The sociology of Athenian tragedy / Edith Hall -- 6. The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication / Simon Goldhill -- 7. Form and performance / P. E. Easterling -- 8. Myth into muthos: the shaping of tragic plot / Peter Burian -- 9. From repertoire to canon / P. E. Easterling -- 10. Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present / Peter Burian -- 11. Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions / Fiona Macintosh -- 12. Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy / Simon Goldhill |
| Summary |
This book presents ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late twentieth-century reading, criticism and performance |
| Notes |
Part of Cambridge companions online |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-379) and index |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500.
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Theater -- Greece -- History.
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Drama.
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Mythology.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006115 |
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Greece. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006115 |
| Author |
Easterling, P. E., editor
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Cambridge University Press.
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| LC no. |
96037392 |
| ISBN |
0521412455 (hardback) |
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0521423511 (paperback) |
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