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A handbook of classical drama 🔍
by Philip Whaley Harsh Stanford University, Calif., Stanford university press; London, H. Milford, Oxford university press, Stanford University, Calif, London, California, 1944
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Introduction to Greek tragedy. Origin -- Legendary subjects -- Meter and music -- Structure of tragedy : prologos, parodos, episodes, exodos -- Certain features of dramatic method : functions of the chorus, trilogy, unity of action, unities of time and place, foreknowledge and suspense, double motivation, absence of violent deeds, economy of roles -- Aeschylus. Life -- Tragedy under Aeschylus -- Suppliants -- Persians -- Seven against Thebes -- Prometheus bound -- Trilogy on Orestes. Agamemnon -- Choephorae (“libation-bearers”) -- Eumenides (“kindly spirits”) -- Sophocles. Life -- Tragedy under Sophocles -- Ajax -- Antigone -- Oedipus the King -- Trachiniae (“maidens of Trachis”) -- Electra -- Philoctetes -- Oedipus at Colonus (Oedipus Coloneus) -- Euripides. Life -- Tragedy under Euripides -- Alcestis -- Medea -- Hippolytus -- Heracleidae (“children of Heracles”) -- Andromache -- Hecuba -- Cyclops : a satyr-play -- Heracles -- Suppliants -- Ion -- Trojan Women (Troades) -- Electra -- Iphigenia in Tauris -- Helen -- Phoenissae (“Phoenician women”) -- Orestes -- Bacchae (“the devotees of Bacchus”) -- Iphigenia at Aulis -- Rhesus -- Introduction to old comedy. Origin -- Structure of old comedy -- Aristophanes. Life -- Comedy under Aristophanes : Acharnians -- Knights (Hippes, Equites) -- Clouds (nephelai, nubes) -- Wasps (sphekes, vespae) -- Peace (eirene, paz) -- Birds (ornithes, ayes) -- Lysistrata -- Thesmophoriasusae -- Frogs (batrachoi, ranae) -- Ecclesiazusae -- Plutus -- Introduction to new comedy. Structure of new comedy -- Subject matter -- Leading Playwrights : Menander, Diphilus, Philemon -- Menander. Arbitration (epitrepontes) -- Introduction to Roman comedy -- Plautus. Life -- Comedy under Plautus : Amphitryon -- Comedy of asses (asinaria) -- Pot of gold (aulularia) -- Two Bacchides (bacchides) -- Captives -- Casina -- Casket (cistellaria) -- Curculio -- Epidicus -- Twin Menaechmi (Menaechmi) -- Merchant (mercator) -- Braggart warrior (miles gloriosus) -- Haunted house (mostellaria) -- Persian (Persa) -- Carthaginian (Poenulus) -- Pseudolus -- Rope (rudens) -- Stichus -- Three bob day (trinummus) -- Truculentus -- Terence. Life -- Comedy under Terence : Woman of Andros (Andria) -- Self-tormentor (heauton tinmorunsenos) -- Eunuch -- Phormio -- Mother-in-law (hecyra) -- Brothers (adelphoe) -- Seneca. Life -- Tragedy under Seneca -- Structure -- Mad Hercules (Hercules furens) -- Trojan women (troades) -- Phoenician women (Phoenissae) -- Medea -- Phaedra (Hippolytus) -- Thyestes -- Agamemnon -- Hercules on Oeta -- Octavia.
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Harsh, Philip Whaley, 1905-
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[curator]admin-venus-jones@archive.org[/curator][date]20111222070010[/date][state]approved[/state]
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"Bibliography": p. 497-511.
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"Bibliography": p. 497-511
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2023-06-28
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