Description
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.Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.22w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780715631232
ISBN10: 0715631233
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
About the Author
Robert Garland is Professor of Classics at Colgate University in the State of New York. He is the author of many books including The Greek Way of Life, The Greek Way of Death, The Piraeus, Introducing New Gods and The Eye of the Beholder.