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Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.
German drama (Tragedy) --- Tragedy. --- History and criticism.
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Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this volume explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.
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L’ouvrage analyse les interprétations contemporaines des tragédies grecques en France et en Allemagne. Il montre qu’elles sont constamment reconstruites comme objet de culture(s), entre tentation mélancolique et confrontation concrète de la lecture des œuvres avec le présent des formes scéniques.
Théâtre --- Tragédie grecque --- Production et mise en scène. --- Adaptations --- Histoire et critique. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama --- Translations --- History and criticism --- Modern presentation --- Appreciation --- Drama --- tragedy [literary, oral and motion picture genre] --- Germany --- France --- Greece --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - Translations - History and criticism --- Greek drama - Modern presentation --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - Appreciation - Germany --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - Appreciation - France --- tragedy [general genre]
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"From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others."
Tragedy. --- Tragedy --- Tragic, The, in literature. --- European drama (Tragedy) --- Theatre History and Criticism --- Literary Genres --- Literary Studies --- Literature and Philosophy (Lit Studies) --- Drama & Performance Studies --- European Theatre --- History and criticism.
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First produced in Athens during the fifth century BC, the tragedies of Sophocles are a high point in world literature, vividly depicting unforgettable characters confronted with emotional crises, moral dilemmas, and the inscrutable ways of the gods. This volume examines Sophocles' reputation as a dramatic poet both in his own day and later in antiquity, considering how it was that some of his plays survived from his time to ours. It investigates the qualities of those plays, focusing on key aspects of Sophoclean dramaturgy such as stagecraft, narrative, rhetoric, and heroism. And it incorporates within its discussion not just the seven plays that survive in full, but those major fragments discovered in recent years which shed so much light on Sophocles' extraordinary ability as a poet and a dramatist. All Greek is translated, making this volume accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
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Did Greek tragedy die along with Euripides? This accessible survey demonstrates that this is far from being the case. In it, thirteen eminent specialists offer, for the first time in English, broad coverage of a little-studied but essential part of the history of Greek tragedy. The book contains in-depth discussions of all available textual evidence (including inscriptions and papyri), but also provides historical perspectives on every aspect of the post-fifth-century history of tragedy. Oft-neglected plays, such as Rhesus, Alexandra, and Exagōgē (the only surviving Biblical tragedy), are studied alongside such topics as the expansion of Greek tragedy beyond Athens, theatre performance, music and dance, society and politics, as well as the reception of Greek tragedy in the Second Sophistic and in Late Antiquity, and the importance of ancient scholarship in the transmission of Greek tragic texts.
Greek drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism.
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Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this volume explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.
Theatrical science --- Drama --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- English drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism.
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Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means "goat song." Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him "the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize." The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.
Tragédie grecque. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Violence in literature --- Murder in literature --- History and criticism --- Sophocles.
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Die humanistische und frühbarocke Rezeption des Sophokles im deutschen Sprachraum ist weniger erforscht als diejenige anderer antiker Dichter. Die hier angezeigte Monographie erkundet zunächst die Wege der Aneignung und Kanonisierung der griechischen Tragödie durch die frühen Humanisten, die vornehmlich nach chrestomathischen Kriterien erfolgte. Sodann wird die dichtungstheoretische Würdigung des Sophokleischen Werks in der humanistischen Stillehre und Dramentheorie und in den frühbarocken Poetiken der Jesuiten erörtert, die das Schultheater maßgeblich beeinflußten. Der allmähliche Abbau der Sprachbarriere des Griechischen und die Rezeption der Aristotelischen Poetik trugen entscheidend zur produktiven Anverwandlung der Sophokleischen Dramatik bei. Schließlich wird die Umformung der Sophokleischen Gestalten und Texte in mythologischen Handbüchern und Lexika, in Übersetzungen und in Schultheateraufführungen, etwa an den Gymnasien von Altdorf und von Straßburg, exemplarisch dargestellt. Am Vergleich mehrerer Bearbeitungen desselben Stoffes lassen sich divergierende Deutungsmuster einer von verschiedenen intellektuellen Positionen bestimmten Zeit dokumentieren. Als Höhe- und Wendepunkt dieser Entwicklung verweist Opitzens "Verteutschung" auf die stärker als bisher in der Forschung angenommenen humanistischen Wurzeln und Absichten seines Sophokles-Verständnisses, das zugleich das erste Kunstdrama in deutscher Sprache hervorbrachte.
Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Humanism --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Sophocles --- Criticism and interpretation --- Germany --- Civilization --- Greek influences.
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