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Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 0521865220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author: George Harrison
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 9004245456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-25
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521648578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Author: Mary Louise Hart
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1606060376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-19
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521666152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space for the purposes of any given play. The book shows how performance as a whole was organised and, through informative diagrams and accessible analyses, Wiles brings the theatre of Greek tragedy to life.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521543521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
Author: Melinda Powers
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1609382315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForegrounding 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: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139827251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Sears A. Eldredge
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780810113657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecause mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation but to instruct them in the techniques of method as well. Featuring dozens of improvisational exercises in the innovative spirit of Viola Spolin, and supplemented with practical appendices on mask design and construction, forms and checklists, and other classroom materials, this book is an invaluable tool for teacher and student alike, as well as compelling reading for anyone interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of masks as agents of transformation, creativity, and performance.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0521193273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShaped by political concerns of today, this is an informed but provocative take on theatre history and theatre's social function.
