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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy »

Authors: P. E. Easterling (Editor), P. E. Easterling, P. E. Easterling, P.E. Easterling
ISBN-13: 9780521423519, ISBN-10: 0521423511
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: P. E. Easterling

Book Synopsis

This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times.

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Preface
	Plan of the city of Athens
1	'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life	3
2	A show for Dionysus	36
3	The audience of Athenian tragedy	54
4	The pictorial record	69
5	The sociology of Athenian tragedy	93
6	The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication	127
7	Form and performance	151
8	Myth into muthos: the shaping of tragic plot	178
9	From repertoire to canon	211
10	Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present	228
11	Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions	284
12	Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy	324
	Glossary	348
	Chronology	352
	Texts, commentaries and translations	355
	Works cited	359
	Index	380