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Death, Catastrophe, and the Significance of Tragedy
This NANO note will examine the tension between representation, memorial, and the catastrophe of death that emerges in the space of tragedy, as the problem arises in two quite different works: Oedipus at Colonus, a fairly typical fifth-century Greek ...
Jennifer Ballengee
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Physical theatre as an approach to contemporary stagings of classical Greek tragedy [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This PhD focuses on physical theatre techniques and practices in order to provide acting keys for directing ancient drama.
Moschochoriti, Rubini
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Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott: The Anthropocene as Tragedy [PDF]
Reprinted with permission from the author. Originally published in Critical Stages/ Scènes critiques (https://www.critical-stages.org Kerrigan, S. Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott: The Anthropocene as Tragedy, 26. 2022.The fate of the tragic Greek figure
Kerrigan, Stef
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This chapter argues that Plath’s immersive study of ancient tragedians at the University of Cambridge, especially Aeschylus and Sophocles, has been understudied in relation to the iconic figure of Electra.
Ranger, H.
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Siroe, re di Persia of Pietro Metastasio and El Viting de Cándido María Trigueros are the works that obviously have a similar plot. Although, they completely differ in the treatment of a figure who takes an important part of saving the life of the ...
Hiroki Tomita
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“‘I will open my lips in vain’ (3.1.192): l’échec rhétorique dans Measure for Measure”
Unlike other plays like King John, Richard III or most of the comedies, in which language is often presented as a powerful instrument of persuasion, Measure for Measure is a play that stages a number of ’’rhetorical failures’’. Though Isabella is said to
Mickaël Popelard
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Le ‘maestre’ di Adelaide Ristori: tracce di una trasmissione generazionale del mestiere
This paper proposes a comparison between Adelaide Ristori and the actresses of the previous generation searching for traces of an unwritten transmission of the theatrical craft.
Giulia Bravi
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El médico de su honra de Calderón entre la ejemplaridad moral y la ejemplaridad estética
Whilst traditional critiques may have considered that El médico de su honra was a didactic work, the Calderón plays scholars tend nowadays to consider this work, and specially the violence of it´s dénouement, in function of aesthetical criteria.
Christophe Couderc
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The tragedy of the tragedy of the commons
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Hochberg, Michael, Brown, James
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No matter how personal Eugene O'Neill's writing usually is, his plays also tend to express a general tragic feeling. Mourning Becomes Electra and A Touch of the Poet encapsulate this tension between the private and the public spheres.
Aurélie Sanchez
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