1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author :
Release : 2006
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Stagecraft of Euripides' Orestes by :
Download or read book The Stagecraft of Euripides' Orestes written by . This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Halleran
Release : 2014-06-17
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stagecraft in Euripides (Routledge Revivals) by : Michael Halleran
Download or read book Stagecraft in Euripides (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Halleran. This book was released on 2014-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively preserved Attic tragedian. Although the ancient dramatic texts do not contain performance directions, they do imply stage actions. This work explores the ways Euripides utilises the latter to make a point: to underline some issue, to suggest a contrast, or to shift the focus of the drama. Specifically, Halleran investigates the rearrangement of characters on stage at the major structural junctures of the play: entrances and their announcements; preparation for and surprise in entrances; and dramatic connections between exits and entrances. Three plays from the same era – Herakles, Trojan Women and Ion – are discussed in greater detail to reveal the potential of this approach for illuminating Euripides’ ‘grammar of dramatic technique’. Stagecraft in Euripides will thus appeal to students of theatre and drama as well as classicists.
Author : Matthew Wright
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Euripides: Orestes by : Matthew Wright
Download or read book Euripides: Orestes written by Matthew Wright. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because "Orestes" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of "Orestes"?
Author : J.R. Porter
Release : 2018-07-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 242/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Studies in Euripides' Orestes by : J.R. Porter
Download or read book Studies in Euripides' Orestes written by J.R. Porter. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the Orestes in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean nome and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina.
Author : Euripides,
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 82X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Euripides Plays: 4 by : Euripides,
Download or read book Euripides Plays: 4 written by Euripides,. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now, with translations aimed at the stage rather than the page, his restless intellect strikes the chord This volume contains some of Euripides' most famous works: Elektra, which reverses previous notions of 'heroic' behaviour; Orestes, in which almost all the characters are driven by base motives of cowardice or revenge; Iphigeneia in Tauris who presumes her brother Orestes dead and her mother Klytemnestra and stepfather Aigisthos still living, is visited by a surprise guest. Elektra, Oresetes and Iphigeneia in Tauris were performed together as Agamemnon's children at The Gate Theatre in 1995 and show the consequences of Agamemnon's "sacrifice" of his daughter at the start of the Trojan war.
