History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama

Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike.

The book includes essays by seven of the foremost scholars of Greek drama--Helene Foley, Michelle Gellrich, Peter W. Rose, David Rosenbloom, Richard Seaford, Bernd Seidensticker, and Froma I. Zeitlin. These writers explore the work of all three great tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and approach them from a variety of perspectives on history and theory, including poststructuralism and Marxism. They investigate the possibilities for coordinating theoretically informed readings of tragedy with a renewed attention to the pressure of material history within those texts. The collection thus represents a response within classics to New Historicism and the debates it has generated within related literary disciplines.

Author: Barbara Goff
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780292728653

About the Author
Barbara Goff is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' 'Hippolytos.'