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Figures of play : Greek drama and metafictional poetics /

Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited the community of the polis to confront itself. In the theatre, as in the courts and assemblies, a si...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dobrov, Gregory W., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: METATHEATER: THREE PHENOMENAL MODES: Drama and metafiction
  • Figures of play, Part 1: surface play and Mise en Abyme
  • Figures of play, Part 2: the comic contrafact
  • PART II: THE ANATOMY OF DRAMATIC FICTION: TRAGIC MADNESS: Aias, Sophokles' Aias, Madness and the show within
  • Pentheus: Euripides' Bakkhai as a contest of fictions
  • PART III: THE ANATOMY OF DRAMATIC FICTION: COMIC UTOPIA: Bellerophontes: Euripides' Bellerophontes and Aristophanes' Peace
  • Tereus: Sophokles' Tereus and Aristophanes' Birds
  • Herakles: Euripides' Peirithous and Aristophanes' Frogs
  • Conclusion.