Greek Tragedy
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Greek Tragedy

Themes and Contexts

Laura Swift

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Greek Tragedy

Themes and Contexts

Laura Swift

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The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it focuses on the broader questions of what defines tragedy, what its particular preoccupations are, and what makes these texts so widely studied and performed more than 2, 000 years after they were written. As such, the book will be of interest to students taking broad courses on Greek tragedy, while also being suitable for the general reader who wants an overview of the subject. All passages of tragedy discussed are translated by the author and supplementary information includes a chronology of all the surviving tragedies, a glossary, and guidance on further reading.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474236850
Edition
1
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Antikes & klassisches Drama
Greek 
Tragedy
4
(if 
so, 
they 
would 
have 
likely 
had 
their 
own 
seating 
area). 
us 
tragedy’s 
audience 
represented 
a 
cross-section 
of 
society, 
and 
this 
was 
certainly 
not 
a 
genre 
catering 
only 
for 
an 
educated 
elite. 
e 
competitive 
format 
meant 
that 
tragedy 
had 
to 
offer 
something 
to 
all 
tastes. 
It 
could 
not 
afford 
to 
alienate 
the 
less 
educated 
in 
the 
audience, 
but 
also 
had 
to 
appeal 
to 
intellectuals 
by 
offering 
them 
something 
new 
and 
challenging. 
A 
successful 
tragedy 
contained 
spectacle 
and 
excitement, 
but 
was 
also 
thought-provoking. 
Competition 
also 
drove 
innovation, 
and 
the 
poets 
needed 
to 
set 
themselves 
apart 
from 
their 
rivals 
by 
finding 
ways 
to 
adapt 
the 
tragic 
format 
or 
the 
old 
myths. 
Conventions 
and 
formal 
features 
For 
a 
modern 
audience 
used 
to 
naturalistic 
‘kitchen 
sink’ 
dramas, 
tragedy 
is 
a 
highly 
stylized 
genre. 
Its 
basic 
structure 
consists 
of 
Figure 
1.1
e 
eatre 
of 
Dionysus 
as 
it 
appears 
today. 
In 
the 
fiſth 
century 
bc, 
the 
seating 
and 
stage 
buildings 
were 
made 
of 
wood. 
(Photo 
by 
A. 
Vergani/
De 
Agostini 
Picture 
Library/Getty 
Images.) 

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