A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world
The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive authorbyauthor examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.
Author(s): Kenneth Mcleish
Series: Plays and Playwrights
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 324
City: London
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Contents
Introduction
ATHENIAN THEATRE
AESCHYLUS
Oresteia
Agamemnon
Libation-Bearers (Choephoroi)
Eumenides
Persians
Prometheus Bound
Seven Against Thebes
Suppliants
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
Antigone
Elektra
Oedipus at Kolonos
Oedipus Tyrannos
Philoktetes
Women of Trachis
EURIPIDES
Alkestis
Andromache
Bacchae
Cyclops
Elektra
Hekabe (Hecuba)
Helen
Herakles (Hercules)
Herakles' Children
Hippolytos
Ion
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Iphigeneia in Tauris
Medea
Orestes
Phoenician Women
Rhesos
Suppliants
Women of Troy
ARISTOPHANES
Acharnians
Birds
Clouds
Festival Time (Thesmophoriazousai)
Frogs
Knights
Lysistrata
Peace
Wasps
Wealth
Women in Power (Ekklesiazousai)
MENANDER
The Malcontent
The Woman from Samos (Samia)
ARISTOTLE'S POETICS AND GREEK TRAGEDY
Key Myths
Glossary
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D
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M
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P
S
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Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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