Looking at Persians

David Stuttard

• Editorial: Bloomsbury Academic
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781350227941
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Literatur
• Categoría: Antikes & klassisches Drama

Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including war, nature and the value of human life, the volume considers how Persians may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today. The twelve essays presented here are written by prominent international academics and offer insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from school students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume also includes an accurate, accessible and performance-friendly English translation of Persians by David Stuttard.

Índice

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction: Persians in Context
• 1 Persians on Stage
• 2 Athens and Persia, 472 BCE
• 3 Persians’ First Audience
• 4 Imperial Stirrings in Aeschylus’ Persians
• 5 Homeric Echoes on the Battlefield of Persians
• 6 Individual and Collective in Persians
• 7 Land, Sea and Freedom: The Force of Nature in Aeschylus’ Persians
• 8 The Persians Love their Children, too: Common Humanity in Persians
• 9 Atossa
• 10 Theatrical Ghosts in Persians and Elsewhere
• 11 Words and Pictures
• 12 National Theatre Wales: The Persians (2010)
• Aeschylus’ Persians
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright