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Author Knox, Bernard, 1914-2010.

Title Word and action : essays on the ancient theater / Bernard Knox.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1979]
©1979

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  882 KNOX    Check Shelf
Description ix, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Prologue: Myth and Attic tragedy -- pt. 2. Aeschylus: The lion in the house -- Aeschylus and the third actor -- Review of Aeschylus: Suppliants (translated by Janet Lembke), Aeschylus: Seven against Thebes (translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon), and Aeschylus: Prometheus bound (translated by James Scully and C. John Herington) -- Review of The Oresteia (translated by Robert Fagles) and The bacchae of Euripides, A communion rite (by Wole Soyinka) -- Review of Agamemnon (directed by Andrei Serban) -- Review of The stagecraft of Aeschylus (by Oliver Taplin) -- pt. 3. Sophocles: Why is Oedipus called Tyrannus? -- Sophocles' Oedipus -- The date of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles -- The Ajax of Sophocles -- Review of Sophocles' Ajax (edited by W.B. Stanford) -- Review of Sophokles, Antigone (by Gerhard Müller) -- Review of Sophocle, poète tragique (by Gilberte Ronnet) -- Review of Sophocles: a reading (by G.H. Gellie) -- Review of Sophocles, Women of Trachis (translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson) and Sophocles, Oedipus the king (translated by Steven Berg and Diskin Clay) -- pt. 4. Euripides: The Hippolytus of Euripides -- Second thoughts on Greek tragedy -- Euripidean comedy -- Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulide 1-163 (in that order) -- The Medea of Euripides -- Review of Euripidean drama (by D.J. Conacher) -- Review of Catastrophe survived (by Anne Pippin Burnett) -- Review of Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (translated by W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr.) and Iphigenia (directed by Michael Cacoyannis) -- pt. 5. Coda: The tempest and the ancient comic tradition.
Subject Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0801821983
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