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Recent Scholarship on Greek Tragedy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

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Greek tragedy is still acted in the original and in translations; it has inspired such modern drama as The Family Reunion and La Machine Infernale; in Norway and France Sophocles’ Antigone helped to give hope to the resistance. Greek tragedy was produced originally at a religious festival by a poet who was poet, musician, producer, and sometimes actor too. The plays were meant to be seen; they had staging and costumes, dancing, and dramatic technique. They were meant to be remembered; they had language, style, and thoughts which the poet desired to communicate at that particular time. The poet himself knew well the leading artists, thinkers, and politicians of the small society in which he lived. Production, metre, technique, style, and thought are the chief elements which the scholar must study if he would make these ancient plays as intelligible as possible to modern readers.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1954 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

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3 Proceedings of the British Academy, xxxv, I.

4 A new Chapter in the History of Greek Tragedy, Cambridge: University Press, 1951.

5 Eranos, xlviii, 131.

6 For tragedy the latest collection is L. Séchan, Etudes sur la tragédie Grecque, Paris: Champion, 1926; for the satyr play, F. Brommer, Satyrspiele, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1944.

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28 In De Antieke Tragedie. See supra, note 18.

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