Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama

Author : Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781408149867

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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama by Kenneth McLeish,Trevor R. Griffiths Pdf

A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.

Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 1408169053

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A Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama by Kenneth McLeish Pdf

This is a meticulously researched survey into the place and purpose of theatre in ancient Greece. It examines the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them.

Author : Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781405137638

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan Pdf

This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC. A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theatre; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama. Includes 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.

Author : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000291513

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How Greek Tragedy Works by Brian Kulick Pdf

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to classical texts by equipping them with ways in which they can unpack the hidden meanings of these plays. He focuses on three of the key texts of Greek theatre: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Euripides' The Bacchae, and Sophocles' Electra, and uses them to tease out the core principles of the theatre-making and storytelling impulses. By encouraging us to read between the lines like this, he also enables us to read these and other Greek tragedies as artists' manifestos, equipping us not only to understand tragedy itself, but also to interpret what the great playwrights had to say about the nature of plays and drama. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who finds themselves confronted with tackling the Greek classics, whether as a reader, scholar, student, or director.

Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350381339

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Staging Ancient Greek Plays by Michael Ewans Pdf

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the book examines large questions, including those related to ancient Greek values, myth and the individual ('characterization'), and the gods and fate – all of which must be taken into consideration when approaching a contemporary production. This practical guide also explores with analysed examples, the issues that today's theatre-makers should consider in order to successfully stage ancient Greek drama. These topics include: - choice of translation - setting - costumes - masks - mode of delivery - acting style for both tragedy and comedy - handling of the chorus - solutions to staging Greek drama

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226154671

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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater by Graham Ley Pdf

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 : David Wiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106015334078

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Greek Theatre Performance by David Wiles Pdf

Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

Author : Eric Dugdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521689422

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Greek Theatre in Context by Eric Dugdale Pdf

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. This book offers a valuable guide to Greek theatre. It presents a broad selection of key ancient sources, both visual and literary, about all aspects of performance - including actors, masks, stage props and choral dancing - as well as scenes from the plays themselves that offer insights into their staging, plots, and reception. The dramatic brilliance of playwrights such as Sophocles, Aristophanes and Menander is brought to the fore by helpful commentary that provides a framework for the interpretation of Greek drama, fleshes out its cultural contexts, and invites students to consider a range of provocative questions.

Author : John Richardson Major
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4038723

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A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians by John Richardson Major Pdf

Author : J. M. Walton
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015000658907

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Living Greek Theatre by J. M. Walton Pdf

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 : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226477619

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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater by Graham Ley Pdf

Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, the author discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. This edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts.

Author : Peter Arnott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349005291

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An Introduction to the Greek Theatre by Peter Arnott Pdf

Author : John Richardson Major
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024340970

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A Guide to the Reading of the Greek Tragedians: being a series of articles on the Greek Drama, Greek Metres, and Canons of Criticism. Collected and arranged by ... J. R. M., etc by John Richardson Major Pdf

Author : Melinda Powers
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609382315

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Athenian Tragedy in Performance by Melinda Powers Pdf

Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpret and explain Athenian tragedy. A case study of Euripides’s Bacchae, which provides more information about performance than any other extant tragedy, demonstrates possible methods for reconstructing the play’s historical performance and also the inevitable challenges inherent in that task, from the limited sources and the difficulty of interpreting visual material, to the risks of conflating actor with character and extrapolating backward from contemporary theatrical experience. As an inquiry into the study of theatre and performance, an introduction to historical writing, a reference for further reading, and a clarification of several general misconceptions about Athenian tragedy and its performance, this historiographical analysis will be useful to specialists, practitioners, and students alike.

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118347751

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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama by Betine van Zyl Smit Pdf

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film