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Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521648572
Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134924035
Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses. Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context of its own society and of theatre practice in general, with examples from other cultures. Professor Arnott places great emphasis on the practical staging of Greek plays, and how the buildings themselves imposed particular constraints on actors and writers alike. Above all, he sets out to make practical sense of the construction of Greek plays, and their organic relationship to their original setting.
Author : Mary Louise Hart,J. Michael Walton
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060377
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521865227
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author : George Harrison,Vayos Liapis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004245457
Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226154671
Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles. Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of scenes from Greek vases that document theatrical performance, this new edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts, as well as an updated bibliography. An ideal companion to The Complete Greek Tragedies, also published by the University of Chicago Press, Ley’s work is a concise and informative introduction to one of the great periods of world drama. "Anyone faced with Athenian tragedy or comedy for the first time, in or out of the classroom, would do well to start with A Short Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater."—Didaskalia
Author : Edith Hall,Stephe Harrop
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780715638262
Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783986473563
Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between Heracles and Theseus, which allows the hero to survive this final and most painful labor. The Heracles raises profound questions about the gods and mortal values in a capricious and harsh world.
Author : David Braund,Edith Hall,Rosie Wyles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170599
Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.
Author : Peter Meineck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466569
This book examines classical Greek theatre, asking how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural and political force. Meineck approaches Greek theatre from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as an embodied live enacted event, and analyses how different performative elements acted upon audiences to create absorbing narrative action, emotional intensity, intellectual reflection and empathy. This was the key to the transformative artistic and social power that enabled Greek drama to advance alternate viewpoints. He also explores what the model of Greek drama can reveal about live theatre's value in cultural, social and political discourse today.
Author : Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827256
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Author : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134968800
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 : J. M. Walton
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015000658907
While there is clearly no dearth of material on Greek theatre, until now no systematic effort has been made to integrate the Classical tradition with our modern perceptions and adaptations of it. Professor Walton's unique guide to Greek drama takes on this task, bringing together a wealth of information on Athenian tragedy and comedy as performed and appreciated in its own time and as embodied on the modern stage. The introductory section highlights some of the characteristic features of Greek tragedy and comedy and suggests how and under what conditions plays were first performed. The following section consists of analyses of the thirty-three surviving plays attributed to Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Each essay provides information on dates, characters, size of roles, and plot, together with an assessment of staging problems and a review of dramatic and theatrical qualities. The section concludes with a discussion of the influence of Greek tragic tradition on Roman drama.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 020317576X
Author : Eric Csapo,Hans Rupprecht Goette,J. Richard Green,Peter Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110337556
Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic, historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major 'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama, dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance and memorialisation.
