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Elektra in drama en cinema: Een vergelijking van Euripides en Kakogiannis aan de hand van Aristoteles

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Abstract

Ever since its birth around 1895, the medium of film has been an apt and above all powerful tool for the adaptation of literature to the screen. Classical antiquity has been present in film since its early days, and is still a relevant and popular subject, as indicated by contemporary films. An interesting name in the history of adapting ancient literature is the Greek Michalis Cacoyannis, who directed an entire ‘trilogy’ of films based on Euripidean plays. This article focuses on Cacoyannis’ adaptation of Euripides’ Electra. It explores both the textual and contextual relationship between the ancient play and the Greek film from 1961. The comparison draws on Aristotle’s six elements of tragedy as formulated in his Poetics (plot, character, thought, diction, music and spectacle) as a useful theoretical framework.

How to Cite:

Vandewalle, A., (2017) “Elektra in drama en cinema: Een vergelijking van Euripides en Kakogiannis aan de hand van Aristoteles”, Tetradio 26(1): 8, 193–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91868