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Total Pages : 147 pages
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Download or read book Greek Scenic Conventions written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vayos Liapis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038553
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century written by Vayos Liapis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.
Author : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134968809
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Theatre in Ancient Greek Society written by J. R. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William A. P. Childs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176469
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. written by William A. P. Childs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106003
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Frogs written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. The Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture and the roots of contemporary thought.
Author : Almut Fries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311038258X
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Pseudo-Euripides, "Rhesus" written by Almut Fries and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer’s Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, discusses textual problems, language, metre and dramaturgy as well as the mythological and literary-historical background of the play. It is an indispensable aid for serious students of the text.
Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135836795
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Textual Practice written by Terence Hawkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987-11-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Niall W. Slater
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236521
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Spectator Politics written by Niall W. Slater and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-06-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates that Aristophanes employed metatheatre not simply to entertain but also to teach his audience how to read and interpret performance in other key public venues of the ancient democracy of Athens, such as performances in the political assembly and law courts. Aristophanes was, Slater contends, the first performance critic. Spectator Politics shows how Aristophanes' comedy served the Athenians by helping them to become active political participants, teaching them to see through deceptive performances, whether on stage or in the political sphere. His comedies use self-conscious performance to encourage the public to move out of the role of passive consumers of spectacle and to reengage the political process. Aristophanes' critique of performance prefigures much in the performance-dominated culture of the modern American political scene. Throughout, detailed readings of the original stagings illuminate the plays for today's audiences and performers, while Slater's cultural critique provides much for those interested in Athenian democracy and its lesson for the contemporary political scene. Spectator Politics offers a salutary demonstration of the power of art to expose and resist the performance powers of would-be demagogues.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521359825
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Greek Literature written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index."--Publisher's description.
Author : Jeffrey Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521231205
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Homeric Studies written by Jeffrey Henderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311033755X
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC written by Eric Csapo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359158
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Author : Robert B. Graves
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386690
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642 written by Robert B. Graves and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567–1642,R. B. Graves examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. He traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes the different lighting techniques, and estimates the effect of these techniques both indoors and outdoors. Graves discusses the importance of stage lighting in determining the dramatic effect, even in cases where the manipulation of light was not under the direct control of the theater artists. He devotes a chapter to the early modern lighting equipment available to English Renaissance actors and surveys theatrical lighting before the construction of permanent playhouses in London. Elizabethan stage lighting, he argues, drew on both classical and medieval precedents.
Author : George William Mallory Harrison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004244573
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre written by George William Mallory Harrison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series has existed for the past 50 years. It provides a forum for the publication of well over 300 scholarly works on all aspects of the ancient world, including inscriptions, papyri, language, the history of material culture and mentality, the history of peoples and institutions, but also latterly the classical tradition, for example, neo-latin literature and the history of Classical scholarship.
Author : Judith Fletcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350144584
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Classical Greek Tragedy written by Judith Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts. Reconstructing how audiences in fifth-century BCE Athens created meaning from the performance of tragedy at the dramatic festivals sponsored by the city-state and its wealthiest citizens, it considers the context of Athenian political and legal structures, gender ideology, religious beliefs, and other social forces that contributed to spectators' reception of the drama. In doing so it focuses on the relationship between performers and watchers, not only Athenian male citizens, but also women and audiences throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. This book traces the historical development of these dynamics through three representative tragedies that span a 50 year period: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, and Euripides' Helen. Topics include the role of the chorus; the tragic hero; recurring mythical characters and subject matter; Aristotelian assessments of the components of tragedy; developments in the architecture of the theater and their impact on the interactions of characters, and the spaces they occupy. Unifying these discussions is the observation that the genre articulates a reality beyond the visible stage action that intersects with the characters' existence in the present moment and resonates with the audience's religious beliefs and collective psychology. Human voices within the performance space articulate powerful forces from an invisible dimension that are activated by oaths, hymns, curses and prayers, and respond in the form of oracles and prophecies, forms of discourse which were profoundly meaningful to those who watched the original productions of tragedy.
Author : Gary L. Kinzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mechanism Design and Synthesis written by Gary L. Kinzel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044401
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Art of Aeschylus written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
