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Book Euripides  Translated Into English Rhyming Verse

Download or read book Euripides Translated Into English Rhyming Verse written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Gilbert Murray and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the _Agamemnon_ which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature. If we accept the view that all Art to some extent, and Greek tragedy in a very special degree, moves in its course of development from Religion to Entertainment, from a Service to a Performance, the _Agamemnon_ seems to stand at a critical point where the balance of the two elements is near perfection. The drama has come fully to life, but the religion has not yet faded to a formality. The _Agamemnon_ is not, like Aeschylus' _Suppliant Women_, a statue half-hewn out of the rock. It is a real play, showing clash of character and situation, suspense and movement, psychological depth and subtlety. Yet it still remains something more than a play. Its atmosphere is not quite of this world. In the long lyrics especially one feels that the guiding emotion is not the entertainer's wish to thrill an audience, not even perhaps the pure artist's wish to create beauty, but something deeper and more prophetic, a passionate contemplation and expression of truth; though of course the truth in question is something felt rather than stated, something that pervades life, an eternal and majestic rhythm like the movement of the stars.

Book Found in Translation

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  • Author : J. Michael Walton
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-07-06
  • ISBN : 1107320984
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book Found in Translation written by J. Michael Walton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating classical tragedy and comedy, here fully investigated, demonstrates how through the ages translators have, wittingly or unwittingly, appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect socio-political concerns of their own era. Chapters are devoted to topics including verse and prose, mask and non-verbal language, stage directions and subtext and translating the comic. Among the plays discussed as 'case studies' are Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Euripides' Medea and Alcestis. The book concludes with a consideration of the boundaries between 'translation' and 'adaptation', followed by an appendix of every translation of Greek tragedy and comedy into English from the 1550s to the present day.

Book More Books

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 766 pages

Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.

Book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature  Volume 4  1900 1950

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 4 1900 1950 written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-12-07 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Book A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater written by Graham Ley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles. Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of scenes from Greek vases that document theatrical performance, this new edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts, as well as an updated bibliography. An ideal companion to The Complete Greek Tragedies, also published by the University of Chicago Press, Ley’s work is a concise and informative introduction to one of the great periods of world drama. "Anyone faced with Athenian tragedy or comedy for the first time, in or out of the classroom, would do well to start with A Short Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater."—Didaskalia

Book The Poetics of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book The Poetics of Psychoanalysis written by Mary Jacobus and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations psychoanalysis. Focusing on Melanie Klein's legacy to psychoanalysis between the 1930s and 1970s, it deals with major figures such as Riviere, Isaacs, Winnicott, Milner, and Bion, as well as Klein's contemporary, Ella Sharpe. Mary Jacobus breaks new ground by giving a central place to the literary and aesthetic concerns of the British Object Relations tradition. Paying close attention to writing that is often side-lined by literary critics and theorists, she makes fruitful connections with particular works of literature and art, along with pressing contemporary issues. The three sections focus on the transitions, mediations, and transformations that took place in British Object Relations psychoanalysis as Klein's ideas were developed and transformed. Situating Kleinian thought in relation to later developments and differences, while making it accessible to non-psychoanalytic readers, The Poetics of Psychoanalysis argues against the separation of British and continental traditions and for the continuing links between psychoanalysis and aesthetics. Rather than applying psychoanalytic ideas to literature and aesthetics, the book traces the British Object Relations tradition as a form of proto-modernist discourse in its own right. Linked by a common thread of ideas and structured to reflect a roughly chronological trajectory, individual chapters can also be read as free-standing critical essays. Aimed at literary readers, this book will also be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners and cultural theorists.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections

Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Euripides

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  • Author : Euripides
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English  A L

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English A L written by O. Classe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Materials for the Blind and Partially Sighted Available from the Crane Library

Download or read book Library Materials for the Blind and Partially Sighted Available from the Crane Library written by Crane Library and published by Vancouver. This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book Novissima Verba

Download or read book Novissima Verba written by Frederic Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fortnightly Review

Download or read book The Fortnightly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fortnightly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1106 pages

Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.