Choral mediations in Greek tragedy / edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gagné, Renaud, 1976- editor.

Hopman, Marianne Govers, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Chorus (Greek drama).

Drama.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 429 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.

Contents:

The chorus in the middle / Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman

Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs / Claude Calame

Chorus, conflict and closure in Aeschylus' Persians / Marianne Hopman

Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia / Jonas Grethlein

Choreography: the lyric voice of Sophoclean Tragedy / Simon Goldhill

Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus / Laura A. Swift

The choral plot of Euripides' Helen / Sheila Murnaghan

Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in Tauris and Athenian imperial economics in a polytheistic world / Barbara Kowalzig

Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae / Anton Bierl

The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical drama / Gregory Nagy

Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello

The comic chorus and the demagogue / Jeffrey Henderson

Dancing letters: the alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias / Renaud Gagné

Choral dialectics: Hölderlin and Hegel / Joshua Billings

Enter and exit the chorus: dance in Britain 1880

1914 / Fiona Macintosh

"The thorniest problem and the greatest opportunity": directors on directing the Greek chorus / Peter Meineck.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88968-0

1-107-06559-3

1-107-05487-7

1-107-05594-6

1-107-05951-8

1-107-05817-1

1-139-51956-5

OCLC:

862939866