S. Goldhill, E. Hall (dir.), Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall (dir.), Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 336.

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Recension par Richard Rader (University of Southern California) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.12.29.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

Thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy take a fresh look at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic repertoire, in the idea of the tragic canon in antiquity, and in the making and infinite re-creation of the tragic tradition in the Renaissance and beyond. The introduction looks at the paradigm shifts during the twentieth century in the theory and practice of Greek theatre, in order to gain a perspective on the current state of play in Sophoclean studies. The following three sections explore respectively the way that Sophocles' tragedies provoked and educated their original Athenian democratic audience, the language, structure and lasting impact of his Oedipus plays, and the centrality of his oeuvre in the development of the tragic tradition in Aeschylus, Euripides, ancient philosophical theory, fourth-century tragedy and Shakespeare.

Table des matières:

Preface Paul Cartledge;

1. Sophocles: the state of play Simon Goldhill and Edith Hall;

Section A. Between Audience and Actor:

2. The audience on stage: rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre Simon Goldhill;

3. 'The players will tell all': the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes Ismene Lada-Richards;

4. Deianeira deliberates: precipitate decision-taking and Trachiniae Edith Hall;

Section B. Oedipus and the Play of Meaning:

5. Inconclusive conclusion: the ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus Peter Burian;

6. The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus Chris Carey;

7. The logic of the unexpected: semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) Michael Silk;

8. The French Oedipus of the inter-war period Fiona Macintosh;

Section C. Constructing Tragic Traditions:

9. Theoretical views of Athenian tragedy in the 5th century BC Kostas Valakas;

10. Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia Angus Bowie;

11. Feminized males in Bacchae: the importance of discrimination Richard Buxton;

12. 'Hektor's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy' Oliver Taplin;

13. Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Chris Pelling.