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Origin of the German trauerspiel
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ISBN: 0674916360 0674916352 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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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.


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Tradition und Transformation : Klassizistische Tendenzen in der englischen Tragödie von Dryden bis Thomson
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ISBN: 311086228X Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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The origins of English revenge tragedy
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ISBN: 1474441742 1474465064 1474441734 Year: 2019 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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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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Actualité des tragédies grecques entre France et Allemagne : la tentation mélancolique
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ISSN: 2103480X ISBN: 9782406080497 2406080498 9782406080503 Year: 2019 Volume: 89 8 Publisher: Paris Classiques Garnier

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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.


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Tragedy since 9/11 : reading a world out of joint
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ISBN: 1350035653 1350035645 1350035637 9781350035638 9781350035645 9781350035621 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing,

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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."


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Sophocles
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ISBN: 9781108706094 1108706096 Year: 2019 Volume: 44 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : Published for the Classical Association,

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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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Greek tragedy after the fifth century
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ISBN: 9781107038554 9781139833936 110857727X 1108679773 1139833936 1107038553 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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The origins of English revenge tragedy
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ISBN: 9781474441711 9781474441735 9781474441742 1474441734 1474441742 1474441718 9781474465069 1474465064 1474441718 Year: 2019 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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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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The Oedipus Casebook : reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King
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ISBN: 9781611863390 9781609176150 Year: 2019 Publisher: East Lansing (Mich.) : Michigan State University Press,

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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.


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Die Wiedergeburt des Sophokles aus dem Geist des Humanismus : Studien zur Sophokles-Rezeption in Deutschland vom Beginn des 16. bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3110952041 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag,

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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.

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