Author: Mary Louise Hart
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art

Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191588652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings, which have been generally regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so-called `phlyax vases', nearly all painted in the Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 t0 360 BC. Up till now, they have been taken to reflect some kind of local folk-theatre, but Oliver Taplin, prompted especially by three that have only been published in the last twelve years, argues that most, if not all, reflect Athenian comedy of the sort represented by Aristophanes. This bold thesis opens up questions of the relation of tragedy as well as comedy to vase-painting, the cultural climate of the Greek cities in Italy, and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a potential `export'. It also enriches appreciation of many key aspects of Aristophanic comedy: its metatheatre and self-reference, its use of stage-action and stage-props, its unabashed indecency, and its polarised relationship, even rivalry, with tragedy. The book has assembled thirty-six photographs of vase-paintings. Many are printed here for the first time outside specialist publications that are not readily accessible.

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134509855
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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An ideal introduction to Greek drama. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Greek Drama and Dramatists is a clear, concise and comprehensive study.

Author: John Barsby
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3476029085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Der vorliegende Band ist aus einer internationalen Tagung zum Thema "Griechisches und römisches Drama: Übersetzung und Aufführung" hervorgegangen. Neben Beiträgen zu Aufführungen in der alten Welt stehen vor allem moderne Übertragungen und Aufführungen im Zentrum, die unter theoretischen, praktischen und historischen Aspekten behandelt werden. Autorinnen und Autoren repräsentieren sechs verschiedene Länder (Neuseeland, Australien, Zimbabwe, Rußland, Großbritannien und Kanada) und sind Klassische Philologen, Theaterwissenschaftler und -praktiker.

Author: Alexa Piqueux
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192845543
Category : Art, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases').0After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes -masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories- and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.

Author: Alan Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009308
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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A new account of Greek comedy performance from its sixth-century origins to New Comedy, drawing upon fresh visual evidence.

Author: J. R. Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134968736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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In Theatre in Ancient Greek Society the author examines the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources, which were intended only for a small, educated section of the population, he draws most of his evidence from a wide range of archaeological material - from cheap, mass-produced vases and figurines to elegant silverware produced for the dining tables of the wealthy. This is the first study examining the function and impact of the theatre in ancient Greek society by employing an archaeological approach.

Author: Euripides,
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195388704
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies at Duke University.

Author: Euripides
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume collects Euipides' Alcestis (translated by William Arrowsmith), a subtle drama about Alcestis and her husband Admetos, which is the oldest surviving work by the dramatist; Medea (Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer), a moving vengeance story and an excellent example of the prominence and complexity that Euripides gave to female characters; Helen (Peter Burian), a genre breaking play based on the myth of Helen in Egypt; and Cyclops (Heather McHugh and David Konstan), a highly lyrical drama based on a celebrated episode from the Odyssey. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521233491
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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