Author: Ruth ScodelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examines the wide scope of classical drama
Theater and Society in the Classical World
Author: Ruth ScodelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examines the wide scope of classical drama
Theatre in Ancient Greek Society
Author: J. R. GreenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134968809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
Oresteia
Author: AeschylusPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192832818
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
For those interested in Greek tragedy and classical literature, this volume is a new translation of three plays and is designed to make the author's original words intelligible and meaningful to modern readers.
Roman Theater and Society
Author: William J. SlaterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A thought-provoking and timeless volume, presenting Roman theater as the voice of the common citizen
Theater of the People
Author: David Kawalko RoselliPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292744773
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas created exclusively for themselves—a model that reduces theater to little more than a medium for propaganda. Women's theater attendance remains controversial, and little attention has been paid to the social class and ethnicity of the spectators. Whose theater was it? Producing the first book-length work on the subject, David Kawalko Roselli draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence, economic and social history, performance studies, and ancient stories about the theater to offer a wide-ranging study that addresses the contested authority of audiences and their historical constitution. Space, money, the rise of the theater industry, and broader social forces emerge as key factors in this analysis. In repopulating audiences with foreigners, slaves, women, and the poor, this book challenges the basis of orthodox interpretations of Greek drama and places the politically and socially marginal at the heart of the theater. Featuring an analysis of the audiences of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, Theater of the People brings to life perhaps the most powerful influence on the most prominent dramatic poets of their day.
Theatre of the World
Author: Frances Amelia YatesPublisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul
ISBN: 9780710063700
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The book is primarily centered on John Dee and Robert Fludd" - Preface.
Greek Theatre Performance
Author: David WilesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521648578
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Author: David WilesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond
Author: Eric CsapoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
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Theatre World
Author: Andreas FountoulakisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311051978X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This collection of essays, published in honour of Professor Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos, addresses topics which lie at the forefront of current research on the fields of Greek drama and classical reception studies. It brings together internationally distinguished scholars who provide fresh insights into issues pertaining to the origins of Greek tragedy and comedy, their generic identity, the structure, the morality or the divine and human characters emerging from individual plays, the presence of Greek drama outside Athens in post-classical times, the associations between drama and genres such as epic and oratory or even the reception of Greek drama in operatic works such as Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Related art forms, such as music, receive particular attention. Focusing on either broader topics or specific texts, the essays of this volume provide a wide range of theoretical perspectives often combining modern critical trends such as reception studies, narratology or cultural studies with close and acute readings of individual passages. The volume is of particular interest to scholars and students of Greek drama and its reception as well as to anyone interested in Greek culture and its various manifestations.