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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 originaltheatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern criticalapproaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modernaudiences.
- An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy,its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggestedreadings 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 ScottProfessor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where sheteaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-centuryfiction. 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