Greek tragedy in action / by Oliver Taplin.

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Taplin, Oliver

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 203 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585460701
9780585460703
0203083814
9780203083819
1138834203
9781138834200
1134414935
9781134414932
1280401109
9781280401107
9781134414925
1134414927
9780415302517
041530251X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Greek tragedy in action.DDC classification:

882/.0109 22

LOC classification:

PA3201 .T37 2003eb

NLM classification:

PA 3131

Other classification:

FE 4451

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Contents:

The visual dimension of tragedy -- Stage management and stage directions -- Introduction to nine plays -- Exits and entrances -- Actions and gestures -- Objects and tokens -- Tableaux, noises and silences -- Mirror scenes -- Scenic sequence -- Emotion and meaning in the theatre -- Round plays in square theatres.

Summary: Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-198) and indexes.

Originally published: London : Methuen, 1978, reprinted with revisions and an updated bibliography, 1985.

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Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is.

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