Surviving Greek Tragedy

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2004 - Literary Collections - 286 pages

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.

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Contents

Readers and StarActors
13
Librarians and Kings
39
Teachers and Churchmen
57
Copyright

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Surviving Greek Tragedy
Robert Garland
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About the author (2004)

Robert Garland is Professor of Classics at Colgate University, USA. He is the author of many books published by Duckworth, including The Greek Way of Life, The Greek Way of Death, The Piraeus, Introducing New Gods and The Eye of the Beholder.

Bibliographic information

TitleSurviving Greek Tragedy
AuthorRobert Garland
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 21, 2010
ISBN0715631233, 9780715631232
Length286 pages
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Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
  
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