Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

Author: Raphaëla Dubreuil

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004681744

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An orator turns to an actor for advice, citizens expect assemblies to unfold like dramas, and a theater-goer cries at a play thinking of his fallen enemy: no Life escapes the mention of theatrical imagery in Plutarch’s paralleled biographies. And yet this is the first book not only to examine Plutarch’s consistent and coherent use of this imagery but also to argue that it is systematically employed to describe, explore, and evaluate politics in action. The theater becomes Plutarch’s invitation for us to question and uncover key moments of Athenian, Spartan, and Roman history as it unfolds.

Theater and Politics in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Theater and Politics in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Author: Raphaëla Dubreuil

Publisher: Brill's Plutarch Studies

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004681736

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The first major work to uncover Plutarch's deliberate and sophisticated use of theatrical imagery in the Parallel Lives as a means to explore the mechanisms and ethics of politics and civic life across Greco-Roman history.

Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives

Author: Louise Fothergill-Payne

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780838751947

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In Parallel Lives, the contributors observe particular Spanish and English plays from the perspective of the numerous parallels and apparent similarities in the evolution of this art form in the two countries. Illustrated.

Niccolo's Smile
Niccolo's Smile

Author: Maurizio Viroli

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-01-09

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780374528003

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A vivid portrayal of the great Italian philosopher - now in paperback In Niccolò's Smile, Maurizio Viroli brings to life the fascinating writer who was the founder of modern political thought. Niccolò Machiavelli's works on the theory and practice of statecraft are classics, but Viroli sugggests that his greatest accomplishment is his robust philosophy of life -- his deep beliefs about how one should conduct oneself as a modern citizen in a republic, as a responsible family member, as a good person. On these subjects Machiavelli wrote no books: the text of his philosophy is his life itself, a life that was filled with paradox, uncertainty, and tragic drama.

Theater outside Athens
Theater outside Athens

Author: Kathryn Bosher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1139510339

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This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.

Elizabethan Theater
Elizabethan Theater

Author: R. B. Parker

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780874135879

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Elizabethan Theater is a collection of essays offered in celebration of the long career of Samuel Schoenbaum. Throughout his career as biographer, bibliographer, historian, critic, and editor of scholarly journals, he has greatly enriched our appreciation of Shakespeare and his fellows. These essays celebrate the many ways in which he has enhanced our understanding through his skill in balancing historical contexts with a recognition and respect for the importance of individual authorship. Distinguished scholars from many countries, representing many points of view, have chosen to honor Schoenbaum by contributing essays that explore the four overlapping areas with which his own research has mainly been concerned: biographical scholarship, the concept of authorship, the hand of the author perceived within the play, and the multiple historical contexts that helped to determine how Elizabethan plays were written and received.

The Theatre of Empire
The Theatre of Empire

Author: Douglas S Harvey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317324048

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Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.

Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire
Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire

Author: Gonda Van Steen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0230106501

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Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and with fundamental cultural and political issues at stake, these episodes prove to be exciting and important platforms from which to reexamine the age-old conflict. This book reaches beyond the standard sources to dig into the archives for important events that have fallen through the cracks of the study of emerging modern Greece and the Ottoman Empire. These events, in which French travel writing, literary fiction, antiquarianism, and nineteenth-century western and eastern geopolitics merge, invite us to redraw the outlines of mutually dependent Hellenism and Orientalism.

Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration
Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration

Author: Fenwick W. English

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 1265

ISBN-13: 0761930876

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today. With more than 600 entries, written by more than 200 professors, graduate students, practitioners, and association officials, the two volumes of this encyclopedia represent the most comprehensive knowledge base of educational leadership and school administration that has, as yet, been compiled.

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Author: Betine van Zyl Smit

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 1118347757

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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