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Greek tragedy on the move : the birth of a Panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC
\"What makes Greek tragedy Greek? The genre is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet at first sight it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works of Greek tragic drama--Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides--were all from one city, Athens, and all lived in the fifth century BC; unsurprisingly, it has often been supposed that tragic drama was inherently linked in some way to fifth-century Athens and its democracy. Why then do we refer to tragedy as 'Greek', rather than 'Attic' or 'Athenian'? This volume tells the story of tragedy's development and dissemination, which is inherently one of travel as tragedy grew out of, and became part of, a common Greek culture. Although Athens was a major Panhellenic centre, by the fifth century a well-established network of festivals and patrons encompassed Greek cities and sanctuaries from Sicily to Asia Minor and from North Africa to the Black Sea. The movement of professional poets, actors, and audience members along this circuit allowed for the exchange of poetry in general and tragedy in particular, which came to be performed all over the Greek world: tragic drama was thus a Panhellenic phenomenon even from the time of the earliest performances. The stories dramatized were themselves tales of travel--the epic journeys of heroes such as Heracles, Jason, or Orestes--and the works of the tragedians not only demonstrated how the various peoples of Greece were connected through the wanderings of their ancestors, but also how these connections could be sustained by travelling poets.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Feminine Veneration Over Patriarchal Domination: Reading Ecology in The Winter's Tale
Early in act two of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Mamillius, the young son of Leontes, states, “A sad tale’s best for winter.”1 Although it is often grouped with Shakespeare’s comedies, many scholars categorize The Winter’s Tale as one of the playwright’s late romances. A critical reading of the play quickly proves the young prince’s point and connects the brutal realities of winter to Leontes’s court in Sicilia. The play is a “generically confused”2 hodgepodge, beginning in a form resembling high Greek tragedy, and concluding with an ending almost too miraculous and happy to be attributed to the mind that poeticized Tarquin’s rape of Lucrece, and dramatized the baking of young Goths into pies in Titus Andronicus. Stephen Orgel notes that as early as 1672, “. . . Dryden, looking back at the drama of the last age, singled out The Winter’s Tale, along with Measure for Measure and Love’s Labour’s Lost, for particular criticism,” while also drawing attention to criticism from virtually every era that called the play, “ridiculous,” and even, “beyond all dramatic credibility.”3 While these criticisms are valid in many ways, an analysis of The Winter’s Tale through an ecofeminist lens proves to be incredibly fruitful. Distinct parallels can be drawn between the structure of the text and the cyclical realities of Nature. The play can be read as offering explicit criticism of man’s domination of his environment and an encouragement to substitute the domination, demonstrated primarily by Leontes, with veneration, primarily illustrated by Hermione and Perdita.
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The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the 'Mind Body' Problem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642
A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays.
Originally published in 1966.
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