scholarly journals The Ancient Classical Drama - The Ancient Classical Drama: A Study in Literary Evolution. By R. G. Moulton, M.A. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d.

1890 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 373-375
Author(s):  
W. S. Hadlet
Keyword(s):  
Classical Drama ◽  
Literary Evolution

The Orchestra as Acting Area in Greek Tragedy

Ramus ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Ley ◽  
Michael Ewans
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
Considerable Experience

For some years past there has been a welcome change of emphasis towards the consideration of staging in books published on Greek tragedy; and yet with that change also a curious failure to be explicit about the central problem connected with all stagecraft, namely that of the acting-area. In this study two scholars with considerable experience of teaching classical drama in performance consider this problem of the acting-area in close relation to major scenes from two Greek tragedies, and suggest some general conclusions. The article must stand to some extent as a critique of the succession of books that has followed the apparently pioneering study of Oliver Taplin, none of which has made any substantial or sustained attempt to indicate where actors might have acted in the performance of Greek tragedy, though most, if not all, have been prepared to discard the concept of a raised ‘stage’ behind the orchestra. Hippolytus (428 BC) is the earliest of the surviving plays of Euripides to involve three speaking actors in one scene. Both Alcestis (438 BC and Medea (431 BC almost certainly require three actors to be performed with any fluency, but surprisingly present their action largely through dialogue and confrontation — surprisingly, perhaps, because at least since 458 BC and the performance of the Oresteia it is clear that three actors were available to any playwright.

The theory and history of ekphrasis. A summary and prospects of research, or, forty-five articles on ekphrasis

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-215
Author(s):  
N. M. Perlina
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Similar Development

The article is devoted to ekphrasis, its historical and literary evolution, as well as aspects of its stylistic, cultural, and ideological origins. The research is based on the versatile collection of The Theory and History of Ekphrasis [Teoriya i istoriya ekfrasisa], which contains a number of previously little known texts and theories on ekphrasis, developed in regions with different ethnic and cultural characteristics. The author spares no effort in the examination of this monograph and, using the observations made by various scholars, discerns a similar development process of cross-cultural and cross-aesthetic transformations and transpositions, which, however, adopts divergent paths. Transpositions, the author suggests, occur in the model of a text awaiting a pictorial interpretation. The article concentrates on the ways to present an image anticipated in a written word, and to generate a new text, whose subject and content draw not only on poeticized observations of the source material, but also on metapoetic tales about its creators.

Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-308
Author(s):  
Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
The Many

Bringing inner biblical exegesis as a methodology to the study of Jeremiah has opened venues to discuss Jeremiah in two quite separate spheres: The book and its literary evolution, as well as the prophetic activity in its early oral-written stages. This chapter is aimed at presenting the great benefits and the many pitfalls that these cross-lines (of methodology and Jeremiah) provide for the study of the prophetic book, and not least, for the basic methodological presumptions of inner biblical exegesis as part of the study of intertextuality in prophetic literature. Focusing on interpretive (i.e., adaptation/actualization) techniques within the plethora of intertextual relationships, this chapter takes the utilization of pentateuchal traditions (rarely, texts) in Jeremiah as a case study, and calls to question some of the basic scholarly assumptions concerning Jeremiah: the differences of style (poetry and prose) and the options to differentiate the prophet from his followers/tradents/editors.

scholarly journals STRUKTUR DRAMATIK PERTUNJUKAN DRAMA KLASIK SANGGAR TEATER MINI LAKON DEWA RUCI KAJIAN BENTUK DAN FUNGSI

WIDYANATYA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
I Made Rudita ◽  
Ni Luh Putu Wiwin Astari
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
And Function

ABSTRAK   Pada dasarnya nilai pendidikan karakter mempunyai tiga bagian yang saling bekaitan, yaitu pengetahuan moral, penghayatan moral dan perilaku moral. Oleh karena itu seseorang dengan karakter yang baik, mengetahui, menginginkan, dan melakukan yang baik. Ketiganya merupakan syarat untuk menuntun hidup yang bermoral dan membangun kematangan moral. Dalam melakukan pendidikan karakter tidak harus dengan menambah program tersendiri, melainkan bisa melalui transformasi budaya, salah satunya nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter bisa disampaikan melalui seni pertunjukan drama, khususnya pertunjukan drama klasik. Untuk menjawab masalah di atas, dalam hal mengetahui nilai  pendidikan karakter melalui transformasi budaya Bali berupa pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini, perlu dibuat suatu penelitian mengenai nilai pendidikan karakter dalam pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater  Mini dengan lakon Dewa Ruci. Penelitian ini berjudul “Struktur Dramatik  Pada Pertunjukan Drama Klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci”.Kajian  (Bentuk dan Fungsi)” adalah hasil studi yang mendalam struktur dramatik pada pertunjukan drama klasik. Penelitian ini mengangkat dua pokok masalah yaitu : 1) untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis bentuk struktur dramatik pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci ;  2) untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis fungsi pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci. Secara umum, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keberadaan dan peranan penting dari nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter dalam pertunjukan pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci . Secara khusus, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bentuk struktur dramatik dan fungsi pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci. Penelitian ini dirancang sebagai penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan dua teori : teori estetika dan teori fungsional struktural. Metode-metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan meliputi observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi dan kepustakaan.Seluruh data diolah menggunakan tehnik deskriptif interpretatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut ; Bentuk struktur dramatik pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci  adalah sebagai berikut   : (1) tema, (2) alur,  (3) latar, (4) penokohan, (5) insiden dan (6) amanat. Sedangkan fungsi drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci  adalah sebagai  berikut : (1) fungsi ekonomi,   (2) fungsi hiburan, (3) fungsi promosi  dan (4) fungsi komunikasi.  ABSTRACT Basically, the value of character education has three interrelated parts, namely moral knowledge, moral appreciation and moral behavior. Therefore someone with good character, knows, wants, and does good. All three are conditions for guiding a moral life and building moral maturity. In doing character education does not have to add a separate program, but it can be through cultural transformation, one of which is the values ​​of character education can be conveyed through drama performing arts, especially classical drama performances. To answer the above problem, in terms of knowing the value of character education through the transformation of Balinese culture in the form of a classic Mini Theater studio performance, it is necessary to make a study of the value of character education in the performance of the Sanggar Teater Mini classic drama with Dewa Ruci play. This research entitled "Dramatic Structure of the Classical Drama Performance of Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci". Studies (Forms and Functions) "are the results of an in-depth study of the dramatic structure of classical drama performances. This research raises two main issues, namely: 1) to find out and analyze the dramatic structural forms of the Sanggar Teater Mini classical drama performance Dewa Ruci play; 2) to find out and analyze the function of the Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci performance. In general, this study aims to find out the existence and important role of character education values ​​in the performance of the classic Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci performance. Specifically, this study aims to explain the dramatic structure and function of the classical drama performances of Sanggar Teater Mini Dewa Ruci play. This research was designed as qualitative research using two theories: aesthetic theory and structural functional theory. Data collection methods used include observation, interviews, documentation and literature. All data are processed using interpretive descriptive techniques. The results of this study are as follows; The form of the dramatic structure of the Sanggar Teater Mini classical drama performances by Dewa Ruci are as follows: (1) theme, (2) plot, (3) background, (4) characterization, (5) incident and (6) mandate. While the function of the classical drama Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci is as follows: (1) economic function, (2) entertainment function, (3) promotion function and (4) communication function.

scholarly journals Translating Commonplace Marks in Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh's Jocasta

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
Carla Suthren
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
The Moment

This essay locates the moment at which commonplace marks were ‘translated’ from printed classical texts into English vernacular drama in a manuscript of Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh's Jocasta, dated 1568. Based on a survey of the use of printed commonplace marks in classical drama between 1500 and 1568, it demonstrates that this typographical symbol was strongly associated with Greek tragedy, particularly Sophocles and Euripides, and hardly at all with Seneca. In light of this, it argues that the commonplace marks in the Jocasta manuscript should be read as a deliberate visual gesture towards Euripides. In this period, commonplace marks evoked printed Greek rather than Latin tragedy, and early modern readers might bring such associations to the English dramatic texts in which these marks also appeared, including the First Quarto of Hamlet (1603).

scholarly journals Famous Hyperboreans

Nordlit ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Pär Sandin
Keyword(s):  
Literary Sources ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
The Individual

<p>The individual Hyperboreans appearing in ancient literature are presented with a review of the Greek and Latin sources and collections of references. Most of the mythological characters are briefly discussed, but the literary evolution of the legends of Abaris and of the “Hyperborean maidens” are treated in some detail. Some of the literary sources receive scholarly treatment, the paper including philological notes on [Aristeas Epic.] fr. 11 Bernabé (the passage is inspired by an interpretation of the name Abaris); Call. <em>Dian</em>. 204–5 (includes an allusion to the Hyperborean maiden Upis/Opis); Call. <em>Del</em>. 293–95 (the passage hints at an etymology of the word Περφερέες; and ἐκεῖνοι in 295 is sound); Call. <em>Aet</em>. fr. 186.26–30 Pfeiffer (discussion of the myth of Orion and Opis); D.H. 1.43.1–2 (discussion of the myth of Palantho and Heracles); Hecat.Abd. <em>FGrH</em> 264 frr. 7, 12 (discussion of the different information about the Hyperborean leadership that is given in the two fragments); Hdt. 4.35 (interpretation of the phrase ἅμα αὐτοῖσι τοῖσι θεοῖσι); Iambl. <em>VH</em> 32.217 (the stated opinions of Abaris seem similar to those professed in Heraclid.Pont. fr. 75 Wehrli); Verg. <em>Aen</em>. 11.857–58 (the utterance of Opis alludes to the death of Orion as presented in Euphorion, Callimachus and pseudo-Apollodorus).</p>

Negritude: Some Dissident Voices

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Barbara Ischinger
Keyword(s):  
African Literature ◽  
Wole Soyinka ◽  
Ousmane Sembene ◽  
Ferdinand Oyono ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Ezekiel Mphahlele ◽  
African Writers

Only eight years ago Janheinz Jahn stated in Neo-African Literature that the critics of nigritude were all writing in English—not in French. Jahn was referring to writers like Ezekiel Mphahlele, Gerald Moore and Wole Soyinka, whose criticism he regarded as “based on an inadequate translation.” 2 The most important movement in the literary evolution in French-speaking Africa had, according to Jahn, only been criticized out of ignorance and misunderstanding. Today, criticism of Negritude has become a major issue in those French-speaking countries which were among its strongest supporters originally. It should be mentioned, however, that certain French African writers—among them Ferdinand Oyono and Ousmane Sembene—have opposed Negritude since the 1950s.

Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
Dramatic Narrative ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Early Byzantine

Early Byzantine church leaders regularly admonished against grief as a Christian response to death. Yet, mourning practices continued unabated, and church leaders also participated in the lavish mourning that attended the funerals of beloved church figures, whether bishops or holy men or women. Amidst such contradictory discourses, liturgical piety appears to have provided a constructive manner of engaging grief and negotiating such tensions. Early Byzantine liturgies in both Greek and Syriac abound in hymns and homilies that retold biblical stories in dramatic fashion. Often, these included searing depictions of anguish, grief, and lamentation over loss or death for biblical characters. The accounts show strong similarities with traditions from classical drama, with imagined speeches as well as dramatic narrative that linger closely on postures, gestures, and lyrical expressions of sorrow. This chapter argues that these presentations took on particular social significance in the context of liturgical setting and performance. Embedded within liturgy itself as an overarching narrative, such stories took on resolution within a higher process of grief turned to restoration. Biblical tragedy, articulated in homilies and hymns, offered congregations typological expressions of their own sorrows, even as people were ritually guided from bereavement to consolation.

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