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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Greek drama"”.
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Concepts of (Un)dressing in Greek Drama
In recent years, dramatic props and costumes have become the focus of a renewed scholarly interest in the performance aspects of Greek drama. This has entailed, in particular, a shift away from enquiries into the ostensible realia of Greek staging to explorations of their complex constructions, …
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Attic Greek drama in the fifth century, B.C. ..
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: p. 50.
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The Interrelationship of Drama and Athletics in Classical Greece
… for a change in the traditional approach to Greek drama and athletics: rather than viewing drama and athletics as essentially unrelated, it is preferable to consider each activity in the light of its relationship with the other.
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Esther and the Maccabees: The Creation of a Hellenist Jewish Heroine
… such as its various scriptural forms in Greek and Hebrew, its absence from Qumran, and the many factors considered in its authorship and dating. Scholarly consideration for the book’s authorship spans from the 5 th Century through the 2nd Century BCE. This period in question saw a …
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The nightingale sings anew: The appropriation of antiquity in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
… and structural models. In her essays on the Greeks in particular, Woolf praises the ancients for achieving those things that she so longs to see accomplished in the works of the Moderns, especially their true representation of character and their exploration of the psychological. Her …
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Doze horas restantes: neotragédia grega e autoficção no hip hop de Atheatos
… Sakellariou, also known as Atheatos, is a former Greek basketball player and rapper who, in 2016, released the album Twelve Hours Left. The album, characterized as a concept album, as it uses recurring linguistic and musical elements that give it unity as a whole, focuses on the story of its …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… for contemporary theatre and ancient Greek drama of the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis from 1944 to 1966. It is a study of their social resonances, their cultural contexts and their role in the formation of Greek cultural identity in general as well as Greek popular music of the …
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The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power
This thesis posits a dialogue between ancient Greek and modern English theatres and gives evidence of this dialogue by relating Merent aspects of modem theatre to the recent performance reception in England of specific Greek texts or images which are concerned with women possessed of or by some …
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Die Zauberflöte: A European Singspiel
… qualities that make this form of staged drama so unique can be understood within the context of European opera in the early eighteenth century. "Opera," according to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, is an Italian term literally meaning "work" (402). This term implies the use of multiple …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
… in all of his works, from Greco-Roman myth, Greek drama, and history, and embedded in all of those disciplines is the biopolitics of the <em>polis. </em>Classical Athenian culture purposefully limited the rights of women, who were thought to lack emotional control, in comparison to men. The …
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Loyalty - bounden duty or liberating challenge? An enquiry into issues of loyalty in a selection of novels by Stuart Hood, James Kennaway and Allan Massie
… strongly throughout literature, from ancient Greek drama to the present day. Nevertheless, there is no study of loyalty in Scottish literature. This thesis will close this gap by examining how issues of loyalty are presented in the fiction of these authors. Furthermore, the discussion of a …
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… of extinction. Chapter 3 investigates his dramatic contextualisation of the consciousness of oblivion (especially as induced by the threat of nuclear war). Links between representations of memory in translation and elegy are established, and the nature of Harrison's public voice discussed …
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Studies in the 'Lysistrata' of Aristophanes
Commentary on Aristophanes' $\textit{Lysistrata}$.
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
… at the importance of the visual component of Greek drama and provides a survey of previous works on this topic. I discuss the stage resources Aristophanes would be using; I explain my choice of examining together Acharnians, Knights and Wasps; and I give an overview of the plays' historical …
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L'oracolo tragico: la maschera del signore di Delfi nella tragedia attica
La mia ricerca verte essenzialmente sul ruolo dell'oracolo di Delfi, dal punto di vista della lingua e delle sue funzioni, all'interno dei drammi di Eschilo, Sofocle ed Euripide: attraverso l'analisi provo a dimostrare come la presenza oracolare nella tragedia rappresenti non tanto un espediente …
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The house of Atreus in ancient Greece
… and dissimilarities in three ancient Greek plays that used the legend of the house of Atreus as the basis for their plots; (2) to discover how these similarities and dissimilarities illustrate separate points of view concerning man, the universe and man’s place in that universe; and …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
… how it has been influenced by the Golden Age of Greek tragedy. It comprises of three parts: the thesis and the novel, hereby presented, and the journal of creative experiences, which was observed at viva. My thesis examines the historical development of Greek tragedy and its structure. It further …
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