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As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others in different ways, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE The Cambridge Companion to Old English The Cambridge Companion to Brecht Literature edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks edited by Malcolm Godden and The Cambridge Companion to Beckett Michael Lapidge edited by John Pilling The Cambridge Companion to Dante The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot edited by Rachel Jacoff edited by A. David Moody The Cambridge Chaucer Companion The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann Humanism The Cambridge Companion to Medieval edited by Jill Kraye English Theatre The Cambridge Companion to Conrad edited by Richard Beadle edited by J. H. Stape The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare The Cambridge Companion to the Studies Eighteenth-Century Novel edited by Stanley Wells edited by John Richetti The Cambridge Companion to English The Cambridge Companion to Faulkner Renaissance Drama edited by Philip M. Weinstein edited by A. R. 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EASTERLING Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge ¡Ü CAMBRIDGE '¡¡IP1 UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West zoth Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vie 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 1997 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1997 Reprinted 1999, 2001 (twice), 2003 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in Sabon A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Easterling, P. E. The Cambridge companion to Greek Tragedy / edited by P. E. Easterling. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 359). ISBN O 521 4x245 5 (hardcover). — ISBN O 521 42351 1 (paperback) 1. Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism. 2. Theatre — Greece — History. 1. Title PA3131.E28 1997 882'.oio9-dc2i 96-37392 CIP ISBN O 521 41245 5 hardback ISBN O 521 42351 1 paperback CE CONTENTS List of illustrations page ix List of contributors xiii Preface xv Plan of the city of Athens xvii Part I: Tragedy as an institution: the historical context i 'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life 3 PAUL CARTLEDGE 2. A show for Dionysus 3 6 P. E. EASTERLING 3 The audience of Athenian tragedy 54 SIMON GOLDHILL 4 The pictorial record 69 OLIVER TAPLIN Part H: The plays 5 The sociology of Athenian tragedy 93 EDITH HALL 6 The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication 127 SIMON GOLDHILL 7 Form and performance 151 P.E. EASTERLING vii CONTENTS 8 Myth into muthos: the shaping of tragic plot 178 PETER BURIAN Part Id: Reception 9 From repertoire to canon 211 P. E. EASTERLING 10 Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present 228 PETER BURIAN 11 Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions 284 FIONA MACINTOSH 12 Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy 324 SIMON GOLDHILL Glossary 348 Chronology 352 Texts, commentaries and translations 355 Works cited 3 59 Index 3 80 viii ILLUSTRATIONS page x Stèle from Aixone, in honour of two chorëgoi. Photo: Epigraphical Museum, Athens; reproduced by courtesy of the Ministry of Culture and Science, Archaeological Receipts Fund, Athens 7 2 Attic calyx-crater with aw/os-player and chorus members or actors. Malibu, Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum 82.AE.83 12. 3 Sculptured base from Delos. Photo: Wim Swaan 50 4 Attic crater with 'Basle Dancers'. Basle, Antikenmuseum und Skulptur- halleBS4i5 70 5 Fragments of Attic jar. Corinth Museum TI 14. Photo: American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Corinth Excavations 71 6 Fifth-century representation of Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers. Copen- hagen, National Museum of Denmark, Department of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities inv. no. 597 72. 7 The 'Pronomos Vase', showing a team of tragic actors costumed for the satyr play. Naples, Museo Nazionale 32.40 inv. no. 81673. Photo: François Lissarrague 73 8 Crater from Apulia, South Italy, probably depicting Dionysus. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1988.81.4, Collection of Jan Mitchell &C Sons 75 9 Apulian vase with comic actors. New York, Fleischman Collection f56 75 10 Fourth-century Attic vase with scene derived from Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians. Ferrara, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Spina TI 145 inv. no. 3032 77 r 1 Jar from Heraclea with Medea escaping in her dragon chariot. Policoro, Museo Nazionale Delia Siritide 35302 78 rz Early fourth-century South Italian crater with a more elaborate repre- sentation of Medea's escape. Cleveland, Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr Fund 91.1 79 ix

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