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Author | : Emma M. Griffiths |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198826079 |
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Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies. The pathos created by threats to children is a notable feature of Greek tragedy, but does not in itself explain the broad range of situations in which the ancient playwrights chose to employ such threats. Rather than casting children in tragedy as simple figures of pathos, this volume proposes a new paradigm to understand their roles, emphasizing their dangerous potential as the future adults of myth. Although they are largely silent, passive figures on stage, children exert a dramatic force that transcends their limited physical presence, and are in fact theatrically complex creations who pose a danger to the major characters. Their multiple projected lives create dramatic palimpsests which are paradoxically more significant than their immediate emotional effects: children are never killed because of their immediate weakness, but because of their potential strength. This re-evaluation of the significance of child characters in Greek tragedy draws on a fresh examination of the evidence for child actors in fifth-century Athens, which concludes that the physical presence of children was a significant factor in their presentation. However, child roles can only be fully appreciated as theatrical phenomena, utilizing the inherent ambiguities of drama: as such, case studies of particular plays and playwrights are underpinned by detailed analysis of staging considerations, opening up new avenues for interpretation and challenging traditional models of children in tragedy.
Author | : Emma M. Griffiths |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192560565 |
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Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies. The pathos created by threats to children is a notable feature of Greek tragedy, but does not in itself explain the broad range of situations in which the ancient playwrights chose to employ such threats. Rather than casting children in tragedy as simple figures of pathos, this volume proposes a new paradigm to understand their roles, emphasizing their dangerous potential as the future adults of myth. Although they are largely silent, passive figures on stage, children exert a dramatic force that transcends their limited physical presence, and are in fact theatrically complex creations who pose a danger to the major characters. Their multiple projected lives create dramatic palimpsests which are paradoxically more significant than their immediate emotional effects: children are never killed because of their immediate weakness, but because of their potential strength. This re-evaluation of the significance of child characters in Greek tragedy draws on a fresh examination of the evidence for child actors in fifth-century Athens, which concludes that the physical presence of children was a significant factor in their presentation. However, child roles can only be fully appreciated as theatrical phenomena, utilizing the inherent ambiguities of drama: as such, case studies of particular plays and playwrights are underpinned by detailed analysis of staging considerations, opening up new avenues for interpretation and challenging traditional models of children in tragedy.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1981-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0199771855 |
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Author | : Andrés Barba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781945492006 |
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Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961716 |
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Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
Author | : H. D. F. Kitto |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134930410 |
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Neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism, this classic text not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2013-04-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1627930310 |
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Aeschylus was a Greek playwright considered to be the founder of the tragedy. Aeschylus along with Sophocles and Euripides are the three major Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Before Aeschylus, characters in a play only interacted with the chorus. Aeschylus expanded the number of actors allowing for interaction among the characters. Seven of his 92 plays have survived. The Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime, influenced many of his plays. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus, which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The plays were "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" (Furies).
Author | : Martin Mueller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780835780681 |
Download Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy, 1550-1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Martin Mueller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : R. B. Rutherford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521848903 |
Download Greek Tragic Style Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.