Types of Tragic Drama
Author : Charles Edwyn Vaughan
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Mythology, Classical, in literature
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Author : Charles Edwyn Vaughan
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Mythology, Classical, in literature
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Author : Christopher Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441116516
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781544217574
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299313808
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
"To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface
Author : Hans-Thies Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317276280
This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship with drama, to its impact upon post-dramatic forms, this is the definitive work in its field. Lehmann plots a course through the history of dramatic thought, taking in Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Wagner, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Brecht, Kantor, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane.
Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004467378
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1973-07-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141906294
Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy).
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