Greek Drama (Bloom's Period Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Editor's Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Use of Chorus in Tragedy......Page 26
Introduction to Ten Greek Plays......Page 34
Poetics......Page 44
The Criticism of Greek Tragedy......Page 60
Sophocles's Electra: The Orestes Myth Rephrased......Page 88
The Birth of Tragedy......Page 106
Tragedy and Greek Archaic Thought......Page 124
The Antidote of Comedy......Page 140
From Aristophanes to Menander......Page 160
Greece: The Forms of Dionysus......Page 178
'I Know You--By Your Rags': Costume and Disguise in Fifth-Century Drama......Page 220
Fear and Suffering in Aeschylus and Euripedes......Page 240
Aristophanes and His Rivals......Page 248
The Tragedians and Popular Religion......Page 266
Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know......Page 304
The Fabrication of Comic Illusion......Page 316
Myth into Muthos: The Shaping of Tragic Plot......Page 330
Chronology......Page 362
Contributors......Page 366
Bibliography......Page 370
Acknowledgments......Page 374
Index......Page 378