Drama and Opera: Greek and Roman drama
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Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Michael Ewans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351555766 |
Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.
Author | : Alfred Bates |
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Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Marianne McDonald |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
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Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139827251 |
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Author | : Alfred Bates |
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Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191610941 |
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Author | : Betine van Zyl Smit |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118347757 |
A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film
Author | : James Harmon Butler |
Publisher | : Chandler House Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.
Author | : Robert J. Forman |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780893566593 |
An essential companion for the student of literature. Works selected include the best-known works of the classical Greek and Roman theatre.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : American drama |
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