| Description |
ix, 378 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Prologue Myth and Attic tragedy -- pt. 2. Aeschylus The lion in the house -- Aeschylus and the third actor -- Review of Aeschylus: Suppliants (translated by Janet Lembke), Aeschylus: Seven against Thebes (translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon), and Aeschylus: Prometheus bound (translated by James Scully and C. John Herington) -- Review of The Oresteia (translated by Robert Fagles) and The bacchae of Euripides, A communion rite (by Wole Soyinka) -- Review of Agamemnon (directed by Andrei Serban) -- Review of The stagecraft of Aeschylus (by Oliver Taplin) -- pt. 3. Sophocles Why is Oedipus called Tyrannus? -- Sophocles' Oedipus -- The date of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles -- The Ajax of Sophocles -- Review of Sophocles' Ajax (edited by W.B. Stanford) -- Review of Sophokles, Antigone (by Gerhard Müller) -- Review of Sophocle, poète tragique (by Gilberte Ronnet) -- Review of Sophocles: a reading (by G.H. Gellie) -- Review of Sophocles, Women of Trachis (translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson) and Sophocles, Oedipus the king (translated by Steven Berg and Diskin Clay) -- pt. 4. Euripides The Hippolytus of Euripides -- Second thoughts on Greek tragedy -- Euripidean comedy -- Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulide 1-163 (in that order) -- The Medea of Euripides -- Review of Euripidean drama (by D.J. Conacher) -- Review of Catastrophe survived (by Anne Pippin Burnett) -- Review of Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (translated by W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr.) and Iphigenia (directed by Michael Cacoyannis) -- pt. 5. Coda The tempest and the ancient comic tradition |
| Analysis |
Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism |
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Theater History To 500 |
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Drama in Greek to ca 500 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Collected works
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- History -- To 500.
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| LC no. |
79011277 |
| ISBN |
0801821983 |
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