This book attempts to reinstate the works of Greek Tragedy as plays rather than just texts to be read. Taplin concentrates on three plays each by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides to do this.
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'A reissue of Greek Tragedy in Action couldn't be more timely: here is a book that championed new trends in the study of Greek drama, offering fresh readings of old texts and above all a dynamic sense of theatre. Oliver Taplin's viewpoint has proved to be both prophetic and influential.' - Professor Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge
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Oliver Taplin is Fellow and Tutor, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Greek and Latin, University of Oxford.
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It is impossible to study Greek tragedy without encountering this book in everyone's footnotes. Taplin's landmark study not only opened up new (very modern) ways of looking at his subject; it also is very readable!
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strophic pair, deception speech, lyric dialogue, surviving tragedy, choral song, mirror scene, death speech, visual dimension, visual meaning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Greek Tragedy (Drama Classics) by Sophocles Sophocles on 5 pages
- The Phoenician Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides on page 28, page 163, and page 164
- Greek Drama by Aeschylus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Dramatic Festivals of Athens by Sir Arthur W. Pickard-Cambridge in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy by Henry John Franklin Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles by Mark Ringer on 4 pages
- Heracles and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy S.) by Pantelis Michelakis on page 140, page 151, and Back Matter
- Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed (Greek & Roman Theatre Archive) by J. Walton in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook by Ronald W. Vince on page 38, and page 61
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