Product Description

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

• An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study
  
• Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth
  
• Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory
  
• Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices
  
• Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #309192 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Review
“Engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, … Greek Tragedy is written in an informal, appealing style … .Rabinowitz is able to lead the reader quickly to the central issues of a play, often with reference to key terms or ideas already brought up in the ‘context’ chapters, and then to explore those ideas as pairs of irreconcilables in a way consistent with her overall emphasis on the ambivalences, ambiguities, and unresolved problems tragedy poses to ancient and modern audiences alike.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2008)

“As a supplement … [it’s] a vein of gold. [The author’s] nuanced familiarity with every aspect of the topic of Greek drama is breath–taking.” (About.com)

From the Back Cover
This is an engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political, and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

Presenting multiple perspectives and addressing the significant topics in the field, this comprehensive book examines tragedy′s relationship to Athenian democracy, religion, and myth. It explores how contemporary approaches to scholarship – including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory – have changed the study and reception of Greek tragedy. Providing a thorough examination of ancient performance practices, and including detailed readings of selected plays, this text explores tragedy’s ideology and effects, illuminating the reasons why Greek tragedy continues to be a subject of consequence to the modern world.

About the Author
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth– and twentieth–century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co–editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides’ Alcestis.