Choral Identity And The Chorus Of Elders In Greek Tragedy
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Author |
: U. S. Dhuga |
Publisher |
: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739147307 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739147306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy by : U. S. Dhuga
Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy challenges the commonly held view that choruses are marginalized by the roles they play in classical Athenian tragedy. Focusing on those tragedies that feature a chorus representing old men who are elders of the community where the action is taking place, Dhuga argues that these elders, as elders, are not necessarily marginal and can even become in some ways central to the represented action.
Author |
: Renaud Gagné |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2013-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107033283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107033284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy by : Renaud Gagné
This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Author |
: Henry Vogel Shelley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B13759 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Study of Piety in the Greek Tragic Chorus by : Henry Vogel Shelley
Author |
: Claude Calame |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2024-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009033886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009033883 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choral Tragedy by : Claude Calame
Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant heroic narratives for contemporary Athens. By including detailed case studies of three different tragedies (one each by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles), Claude Calame's seminal study not only re-examines the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, but pushes beyond this to argue for the 'polyphony' of choral performance. Here, he explores the fundamentally choral nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which tragedy was performed.
Author |
: Renaud Gagné |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 429 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1107054877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781107054875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy by : Renaud Gagné
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.
Author |
: Joshua Billings |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2013-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199670574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199670579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choruses, Ancient and Modern by : Joshua Billings
The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of similarity and difference between ancient and modern choruses, across time and place, in their ancient contexts in modern theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and in political debate.
Author |
: Reginald William Boteler Burton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106006023078 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies by : Reginald William Boteler Burton
This book examines Sophocles' handling of the chorus in his seven extant tragedies. This aspect of his art was chosen two reasons, first because in many of the most important books on Sophoclean drama his treatment of the chorus has not received the attention it deserves, and secondly because this traditional element in Greek Tragedy strikes modern taste as its strangest and least intelligible feature. A chapter is devoted to each play so that each chapter may be read separately in conjunction with the Greek text. Each chapter tries to define the personality and status of the chorus chosen by the dramatist, to consider their use both as singers and actors, and to trace the developments in his treatment of their role in so far as this is possible from the evidence of seven plays whose composition appears to have been spread over a period of some forty years
Author |
: Eirene Visvardi |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2015-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004285576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004285571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus by : Eirene Visvardi
Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by examining how certain choruses ‘act’ on their shared feelings. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides’ History. Considered together, these texts undermine the sharp divide between emotion and reason and address a preoccupation that emerges as central in Athenian life: how to channel the motivational power of collective emotion into judicious action and render it conducive to cohesion and collective prosperity. Through their performance of emotion, tragic choruses raise the question of which collective voices deserve a hearing in the institutions of the polis and suggest diverse ways to envision passionate judgment and action.
Author |
: Mae J. Smethurst |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2013-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739172438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739172433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh by : Mae J. Smethurst
By looking at 15th/16th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a previously unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and their performance, that is, the involvement of the third actor at the climactic moments of the plot in both and the actor stepping out of character in noh. This observation helps to account for Aristotle’s view that tragedy be limited to three actors.
Author |
: Florence Yoon |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2020-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350076761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350076767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Euripides: Children of Heracles by : Florence Yoon
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic. Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.