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Gender and politics in Greek tragedy / Michael X. Zelenak.

Title
Gender and politics in Greek tragedy / Michael X. Zelenak.
Author
Zelenak, Michael X.
Publication
New York : P. Lang, c1998.

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156 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "Theatrical tragedy, like all other major civic institutions of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian democratic patriarchy, was exclusively male. The course of western drama changed when women characters (played by transvestite male performers) were introduced.
  • Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy explores themes and issues of gender identity and political ideology in plays by Aeschylus (Suppliant Maidens, Oresteia), Sophocles (Antigone, Philoctetes), and Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Iphigeneia in Aulis, Bakkhai). This is the first book-length treatment of the themes of gender and politics in ancient Greek tragedy."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Artists and issues in the theatre ; v. 7
Uniform Title
Artists and issues in the theatre ; v. 7.
Subject
  • Gender identity in literature
  • Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism
  • Literature and society > Greece
  • Mythology, Greek, in literature
  • Political plays, Greek > History and criticism
  • Politics and literature > Greece
  • Sex role in literature
  • Women and literature > Greece
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Tragedy and Politics: The Art Form of the Democracy -- Ch. 2. Tragedy and Gender: Inventing the Female -- Ch. 3. Tragedy and Pornography: Transvestite Ritual Theatre -- Ch. 4. "Heifers Trapped by Wolves": Aeschylus' Suppliant Maidens -- Ch. 5. "Not of Woman Born": The Oresteia -- Ch. 6. A Woman's Place Is in the Tomb: Sophocles' Antigone -- Ch. 7. "The Best of All Possible Wives": Euripides' Alcestis -- Ch. 8. Euripides' Everywoman: Medea and the Dramaturgy of Gender -- Ch. 9. Resignation, Despair & the Great Capitulation: Sophocles' Philoctetes -- Ch. 10. Death Throes of the Patriarchy: Euripides' Final Plays.
ISBN
0820440604 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98010448^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library