N. Sorkin Rabinowitz, Greek Tragedy

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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Greek Tragedy. Malden, MA:  Blackwell Pub., coll. "Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World", 2008, xii-218p.

Recension par Jeremy B. Lefkowitz, University of Pennsylvania dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.12.12

Isbn 13 (ean): 

Paperback: 9781405121613

Hardback: 9781405121606

 Présentation de l'éditeur:

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.

• An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study
• Examines tragedy's relationship to democracy, religion, and myth
• Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory
• Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices
• Includes detailed readings of selected plays

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.

Sommaire:

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