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Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914 is a non-fiction book authored by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh. It was published on 15 September 2015 by the Oxford University Press . Chronological coverage is from the British Restoration to the early twentieth century.
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It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy. Greek tragedy is widely believed to be an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and theatre, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance.
Asclepiades of Tragilus (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης) was an ancient Greek literary critic and mythographer of the 4th century BC, and a student of the Athenian orator Isocrates. [1] His works do not survive, but he is known to have written the Tragodoumena (Τραγῳδούμενα, "The Subjects of Tragedy"), [ 2 ] in which he discussed ...
She had permanent impact on the department when as chair Bacon made modern Greek a permanent part of the curriculum and started the tradition of the annual Barnard College Greek or Latin play. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] During this time, Bacon was a director of the American Philological Association (1976–79) and became president in 1985, the third woman ...
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, General editor with E. J. Kenney; The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Editor, 1997; Greek Scripts: An Illustrated Introduction, edited with Carol Handley (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001) Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited with Edith Hall, 2002
^Buckham, p. 108: "The honour of introducing Tragedy in its later acceptation was reserved for a scholar of Thespis in 511 BC, Polyphradmon's son, Phrynichus; he dropped the light and ludicrous cast of the original drama and dismissing Bacchus and the Satyrs formed his plays from the more grave and elevated events recorded in mythology and history of his country."
Prometheus Bound (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, romanized: Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC.