How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays.
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays.
Brian Kulick is chair of the Theatre Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He has been an Associate Artist at The Public Theatre where his work on Shakespeare has been seen at The Delacorte in Central Park, and the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company where he directed such world premieres as Anne Carson's critically acclaimed An Oresteia. .
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: 115th and Broadway, circa 410 BCE PART I: CONVERSING WITH SHADOWS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT TEXTS 1. Raising the dead or, theatre as thanatology 2. Antigone. A journey to the underworld of the text: how to read a Greek tragedy 3. Dictionary for the ghost language of the tragic PART II: TOWARD AN ALTERNATE POETICS OR, WHAT OUR THREE GREEK TRAGEDIANS CAN TELL US ABOUT THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF THE TRAGIC 4. Aeschylus's Agamemnon or, first principles 5. Sophocles' Electra or, the dialectics of the tragic 6. Euripides' The Bacchae or, recognition as re-cognition PART III: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FORM 7. Tragedy as "the metaphor of an intellectual intuition " Hölderlin on the poetics of the tragic 8. Among the ruins: what the fragments can tell us about Greek tragedy CODA: BACK TO THE LIGHT OF DAY Appendices
Introduction: 115th and Broadway, circa 410 BCE PART I: CONVERSING WITH SHADOWS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT TEXTS 1. Raising the dead or, theatre as thanatology 2. Antigone. A journey to the underworld of the text: how to read a Greek tragedy 3. Dictionary for the ghost language of the tragic PART II: TOWARD AN ALTERNATE POETICS OR, WHAT OUR THREE GREEK TRAGEDIANS CAN TELL US ABOUT THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF THE TRAGIC 4. Aeschylus's Agamemnon or, first principles 5. Sophocles' Electra or, the dialectics of the tragic 6. Euripides' The Bacchae or, recognition as re-cognition PART III: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FORM 7. Tragedy as "the metaphor of an intellectual intuition " Hölderlin on the poetics of the tragic 8. Among the ruins: what the fragments can tell us about Greek tragedy CODA: BACK TO THE LIGHT OF DAY Appendices
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