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Theban Plays

By: Sophocles,Peter Meineck,Paul Woodruff

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Theban Plays

By: Sophocles,Peter Meineck,Paul Woodruff

This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher of Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872205851

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9780872205857

Theatrocracy

Greek Drama, Cognition, and the Imperative for Theatre

By: Peter Meineck

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Theatrocracy

Greek Drama, Cognition, and the Imperative for Theatre

By: Peter Meineck

This book examines classical Greek theatre, asking how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural and political force. Meineck approaches Greek theatre from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as an embodied live enacted event, and analyses how different performative elements acted upon audiences to create absorbing narrative action, emotional intensity, intellectual reflection and empathy. This was the key to the transformative artistic and social power that enabled Greek drama to advance alternate viewpoints. He also explores what the model of Greek drama can reveal about live theatre's value in cultural, social and political discourse today.

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239

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Taylor & Francis

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1315466562

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9781315466569

Aristophanes 1

Clouds, Wasps, Birds

By: Aristophanes,Peter Meineck

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Aristophanes 1

Clouds, Wasps, Birds

By: Aristophanes,Peter Meineck

Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872203603

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9780872203600

Theatrocracy

Greek Drama, Cognition, and the Imperative for Theatre

By: Peter Meineck

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Greek Drama, Cognition, and the Imperative for Theatre

By: Peter Meineck

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What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason

By: Peter Sloterdijk

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What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason

By: Peter Sloterdijk

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust – “the age of extremes,” to use Hobsbawm’s famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological “antigravitation”. The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger’s politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.

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John Wiley & Sons

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150951841X

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9781509518418

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

By: Eric Csapo,Peter Wilson

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A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

By: Eric Csapo,Peter Wilson

This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108635318

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Clouds

By: Aristophanes,Peter Meineck

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Clouds

By: Aristophanes,Peter Meineck

This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguished this edition of a play famous for its caricature of Socrates and of the 'new learning'.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872205169

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9780872205161

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Theban Plays

Theban Plays

Theatrocracy

Theatrocracy

Aristophanes 1

Aristophanes 1

Theatrocracy

Theatrocracy

What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

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