CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on translations and editions
A list of plates
Part I The social and theatrical background
1 The Performance Culture of Athens
2 The Festival Context
3 Production as Participation
4 The Theatre Of Dionysus
5 Conventions of Production
Part II Exemplary Plays
6 Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy
7 Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
8 Euripides’ Suppliant Women
9 Euripides’ Ion
Select bibliography
Index
Biography
Rush Rehm is Professor of Classics and Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, USA. He is also a freelance actor and director, and Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater.
"This new edition will be a great resource – and an enjoyable read – for anyone interested in Greek tragic theatre. As both scholar and actor/director, Rush Rehm knows the right questions to ask, and his answers are richly informative and thought-provoking."
- Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge, UK
"As a classicist and theater director, Rehm is well suited to offer an insightful analysis of Greek tragedy that emphasizes aspects of performance. In this second edition of Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, the author offers limited changes: though the notes have been thoroughly updated, the sections and chapter titles are identical in both editions."
- S. E. Goins, McNeese State University, USA, CHOICE review
"In a thriving time of general introductions on Greek tragedy, Rehm’s Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre stands out as a non-conventional account of tragic theatre, making it lively reading for scholars and students alike. In this volume, Rehm presents a coherent and fascinating reading of Athenian tragedy and theatre as part and parcel of a "performance culture", a working definition that Rehm had the merit to put to good use before, as he reminds his readers, it became a cliché on fifth-century Athens ... Rehm offers a fresh and engaged look at the dynamics of Athenian tragic theatre."
- Manuela Giordano, Università della Calabria, Italy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018
