Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2019-03-28
Type: BOOK
A work honed from a decade's teaching at the New School, where 'Critchley on Tragedy' is one of the most popular courses, Tragedy, the Greeks and Us is a compelling examination of the history of tragedy.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020-03-17
Type: BOOK
This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-08-23
Type: BOOK
For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Type: BOOK
Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, ...
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1990
Type: BOOK
(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays.
Publisher: Pauline Hager
Published: 2010-06
Type: BOOK
Conflict abounds in this epic novel of the long, fierce war for independence fought by the Greeks against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, set in 1821 to 1829.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2021-09-14
Type: BOOK
From the eighth through the fifth centuries BCE, Homeric epics and Athenian tragedies exposed the tyrannical potential of individuals and groups large and small. These stories identified abuses of power as self-defeating.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2019-02-05
Type: BOOK
For Rousseau, the origin has the form of a “scene”—that is, of theater. On this basis, Rousseau’s texts on the theater, especially the Letter to d’Alembert, emerge as an incisive interrogation of Aristotle’s Poetics.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Type: BOOK
Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982
Type: BOOK
In this study, R. G. A. Buxton examines the Greek concept of peitho (persuasion) before analysing plays by Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides.
