The Context of Ancient Drama
Author: Eric Csapo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780472082759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn easy-to-use guide to the nature and stagecraft of ancient plays
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The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond
Author: Eric Csapo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-01-15
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0521836824
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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1405137630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Theatre in Ancient Greek Society
Author: J. R. Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134968809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
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.
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?
Author: John J. Winkler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780691015255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The more we learn about the original production of tragedies and comedies in Athens the more it seems wrong even to call them plays in the modern sense of the word, ' write the editors in this collection of critically diverse innovative essays aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama.
Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
Author: Hanna M. Roisman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1350104000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on those of the male playwrights, and offers multiple viewpoints and critiques that enable readers to understand the context of each play and form their own views. Four core themes bridge the depictions of the heroines: the socio-political dynamic of ancient Greek expectations of women and their roles in society, the conflict of masculinity versus femininity, the alternation of defiance and submission, and the interplay between deceit and rhetoric. Each chapter offers clear descriptions of plot and mythical background, and builds on the text of the plays to enable reflections on language and performance. All technical terms are explained and key topics or references are pulled out into box features that provide further background information. Discussion points at the ends of chapters enable readers to explore various topics more deeply.
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
Author: Graham Ley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 022615467X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary 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
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama
Author: Anna A. Lamari
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 311062169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.
Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily
Author: KATHRYN G. BOSHER
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781108725651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the origins and development of ancient drama, especially comedy, on Sicily and its relationship to the political situation.
