How Greek tragedy works : a guide for directors, dramaturges, and playwrights /: a guide for directors, dramaturges, and playwrights. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian Kulick.
• Authors: Kulick, Brian
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 882.0109; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000291513; 9781000291476; 9781003119098
• Related ISBNs: 9780367634070; 9780367634063
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