Surviving Greek tragedy / Robert Garland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garland, Robert, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Criticism, Textual.

Criticism, Textual.

Greek drama--Modern presentation.

Greek drama.

Transmission of texts--Greece.

Transmission of texts.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators and theatre directors. Over the course of this 2,400-year period, the plays were at different times performed, copied, quoted, emended, excerpted, analysed, taught, translated, censored, adapted, or merely left to moulder in a library, as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage, and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world, taking this fascinating story right up to the present. Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre, London."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-277) and indexes.

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781472540195

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.