Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (USA Hamilton College)

Greek Tragedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781405121613
• ISBN-10: 1405121610
• Artikelnr.: 22748625

Autorenporträt

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides' Alcestis.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I Tragedy in Its Athenian Context.

1 What Was Tragedy?.

Definitions of Tragedy.

What Did It Do?.

Where Did It Come From?.

How Were the Plays Performed?.

2 Tragedy and the Polis.

Democracy.

Empire and Hegemony.

Performance Setting.

Rhetoric.

Referentiality.

Ideology.

Nothing to Do with the City?.

3 Tragedy and Greek Religion.

Dionysos.

Sacred Time and Space.

Ritual Practices.

Ritual Practice in Tragedy.

Greek Gods and Mortals.

Tragedy and Myth.

Euripides' Bacchai.

Part II Thematic Approaches.

4 War and Empire.

Aeschylus' Persians.

Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis.

5 Family Romance and Revenge in the House of Atreus.

Euripides' Elektra.

Sophocles' Elektra.

6 Victims and Victimizers.

Euripides' Trojan Women.

Euripides' Hekabe.

Euripides' Medea.

7 The King and I.

Sophocles' Antigone.

Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos.

8 Epilogue: Modern Performances (with Sue Blundell).

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, ... GreekTragedy is written in an informal, appealing style ....Rabinowitz is able to lead the reader quickly to the centralissues of a play, often with reference to key terms or ideasalready brought up in the 'context' chapters, and thento explore those ideas as pairs of irreconcilables in a wayconsistent with her overall emphasis on the ambivalences,ambiguities, and unresolved problems tragedy poses to ancient andmodern audiences alike." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review,December 2008)

"As a supplement ... [it's] a vein of gold. [Theauthor's] nuanced familiarity with every aspect of the topicof Greek drama is breath-taking." (About.com)
"A new approach to a popular subject offering readings ofsome of the best-known Attic tragedies in both their ancient andmodern contexts. The author's application of contemporary debatesand issues to the ancient material is refreshing and stimulating.This book has much to offer."
-Fiona McHardy, Roehampton University