Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Trachinian Tragedy written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Trachinian Tragedy, better known as the Women of Trachis, the wife of Herakles, Deianeira, finds she has a rival in the house for her husband's affection. The consequences of her counteraction are incredible.In this faithful translation, F L Light attempts to write as good a play in English as the original in Greek.F L Light has also translated the Antigone of Sophocles."It is always gratifying, it elevates the human spirit to see one our fellows...set his aim unbelievably high and incredibly hit the mark!" David Madgalene, bilingual author of "I Hear A Journeyman Singing" and many other books of verse."Light has blended very well the traditions of Shakespeare, Homer, and the English language sonnet, without erring on the side of pretense. The language is high, direct, and modern. I'm thrilled with these." Zachary Bos, editor of Sixty Six: a journal of sonnet studies.

Download or read book Sophocles Tragic World written by Charles Segal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the heroic figures of Sophocles' powerful dramas. Now Charles Segal focuses our attention not on individual heroes and heroines, but on the world that inspired and motivated their actions--a universe of family, city, nature, and the supernatural. He shows how these ancient masterpieces offer insight into the abiding question of tragedy: how one can make sense of a world that involves so much apparently meaningless violence and suffering. In a series of engagingly written interconnected essays, Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women. He examines the language and structure of the plays from several interpretive perspectives, drawing both on traditional philological analysis and on current literary and cultural theory. He pays particular attention to the mythic and ritual backgrounds of the plays, noting Sophocles' reinterpretation of the ancient myths. His delineation of the heroes and their tragedies encompasses their relations with city and family, conflicts between men and women, defiance of social institutions, and the interaction of society, nature, and the gods. Segal's analysis sheds new light on Sophocles' plays--among the most widely read works of classical literature--and on their implications for Greek views on the gods, moral life, and sexuality. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction Drama and Perspective in Ajax Myth, Poetry, and Heroic Values in the Trachinian Women Time, Oracles, and Marriage in the Trachinian Women Philoctetes and the Imperishable Piety Lament and Closure in Antigone Time and Knowledge in the Tragedy of Oedipus Freud, Language, and the Unconscious The Gods and the Chorus: Zeus in Oedipus Tyrannus Earth in Oedipus Tyrannus Abbreviations Notes Index Reviews of this book: "Sophocles' Tragic World is...a lucidly written work of great theoretical sophistication and learning, offering many new insights into the fundamental meaning of the plays." DD--Victor Bers, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "[Segal] refutes reductionist attempts to derive from a Sophoclean tragedy a unitary moral or message. The dramas, Segal argues, present insoluble dilemmas that require the audience to engage with the situations the characters face, the choices the characters make, and the consequences of those choices...This book will be of interest to anyone who wants a fuller appreciation of Sophocles' dramatic art." DD--Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, New England Classical Journal "Segal's strengths as a critic are sensitivity to detail, breadth of cultural reference, and open-mindedness; these qualities make his writing rich...This is a book which could enhance any reader's understanding of Sophocles." DD--Greece and Rome "A fine collection of nine essays...A richly rewarding collection amply illustrated with specific detailed reference to the texts that one always tries to inculcate in one's pupils: for them, this will be invaluable." DD--Jim Neville, JACT Review "Sophocles' Tragic World is an organized collection of nine essays (plus introduction) on five plays, Ajax, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, Antigone, and--especially--OT, to which four of the chapters are devoted. The introduction and three of the essays (one on Ant., two on OT) are new; the others are revisions of published articles, dating originally from 1976 to 1993. For several decades now, [Segal] has been so articulate about Greek tragedy, and so productive in his articulations, that one has acquired an unusually sharp sense...of the changing shape and direction that his readings have taken over the years." DD--M.S. Silk, Classical Review "Charles Segal has written a superb critical study of five of the seven extant plays by Sophocles...Segal's analytical interests go beyond the usual discussion of the nature of heroic greatness of tragic stature. He is principally concerned with the 'tragic world' which Sophocles depicts...Segal writes in a lucid, jargon-free prose that is also dramaturgy of the highest order...Segal's strength as a critic issues directly from a wide-ranging sensitivity to the epic tradition and a nuanced awareness of the dramatic use of temporal shifts and poetic displacements. Segal's terrific, lucid book should also be required reading for anyone interested in the tragic stature of women in Greek tragedy. His complex thinking on the subject gives justice to the basic intractability of Sophocles's views on the nature of feminine sensibility." DD--Randy Gener, New York Theatre Wire "This work includes five previously published essays and four new essays. Once more, Segal brings his considerable scholarship to bear on the plays of Sophocles, addressing five of the seven extant tragedies." DD--Choice

Download or read book Four Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging issues, and each of the four featured plays.

Download or read book Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freytag s Technique of the Drama written by Gustav Freytag and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technique of the Drama written by Gustav Freytag and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles written by Richard C. Jebb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1904, and reprinted numerous times thereafter, this book contains translations of the seven tragedies of Sophocles. The translations were all produced by the renowned classical scholar and politician Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Sophocles, translation and Ancient Greek drama.

Download or read book A Study of Piety in the Greek Tragic Chorus written by Henry Vogel Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The tragedies of Sophocles in Engl prose The Oxford tr written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles Literally Translated Into English Prose from the Greek Text of Brunck with Notes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tragic Drama in Aeschylus Sophocles and Shakespeare written by Lewis Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tragedies in English Prose written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Sophoclean Drama written by Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.

Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Literature written by William Henry Hudson and published by London : G.G. Harrap. This book was released on 1922 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A first Latin English dictionary written by Arthur Campbell Ainger and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ancient Phonograph written by Shane Butler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice—as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal arts—literature, oratory, song—and the nature of aesthetic experience.