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Author : J. M. Walton
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Theatre Practice written by J. M. Walton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-08-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Michael Walton
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Theatre Practice written by J. Michael Walton and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134924038
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre written by Peter D. Arnott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses. Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context of its own society and of theatre practice in general, with examples from other cultures. Professor Arnott places great emphasis on the practical staging of Greek plays, and how the buildings themselves imposed particular constraints on actors and writers alike. Above all, he sets out to make practical sense of the construction of Greek plays, and their organic relationship to their original setting.
Author : Roy Caston Flickinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Greek Theater and Its Drama written by Roy Caston Flickinger and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715638262
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Theorising Performance written by Edith Hall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648578
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Greek Theatre Performance written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615467X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater written by Graham Ley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408149842
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama written by Kenneth McLeish and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519787
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Theorising Performance written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus", "Euripides", and "Medea" - have established a distinguished place in the international performance repertoire, and attracted eminent directors including Peter Stein, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, and Katie Mitchell. Staging texts first written two and a half thousand years ago, for all-male, ritualised, outdoor performance in masks in front of a pagan audience, raises quite different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama, including Shakespeare. But the discussion of this development in modern performance has until now received scant theoretical analysis. This book provides the solution in the form of a lively interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, between sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama alike.
Author : David Sansone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118358376
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric written by David Sansone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric “An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what ‘everybody knows’ about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.” Victor Bers, Yale University “Sansone’s book is first-rate and should be read by any scholar interested in the origins of Greek rhetorical theory or, for that matter, interested in Greek tragedy. That Greek tragedy contains elements properly described as rhetorical is familiar, but Sansone goes far beyond this understanding by putting Greek tragedy at the heart of a counter-narrative of those origins.” Edward Schiappa, The University of Minnesota This book challenges the standard view that formal rhetoric arose in response to the political and social environment of ancient Athens. Instead, it is argued, it was the theater of Ancient Greece, first appearing around 500 BC that prompted the development of formalized rhetoric, which evolved soon thereafter. Indeed, ancient Athenian drama was inextricably bound to the city-state’s development as a political entity, as well as to the birth of rhetoric. Ancient Greek dramatists used mythical conflicts as an opportunity for staging debates over issues of contemporary relevance, civic responsibility, war, and the role of the gods. The author shows how the essential feature of dialogue in drama created a ‘counterpoint’—an interplay between the actor making the speech and the character reacting to it on stage. This innovation spurred the development of other more sophisticated forms of argumentation, which ultimately formed the core of formalized rhetoric.
Author : Roy Caston Flickinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Greek Theatre and Its Drama written by Roy Caston Flickinger and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre written by Marianne McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Vayos Liapis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009038745
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Adapting Greek Tragedy written by Vayos Liapis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece some twenty-five centuries ago but remains as vital as ever. In this volume, fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of the theatre systematically discuss contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy and explore the challenges and rewards involved therein. Adopting a variety of methodologies, viewpoints and approaches, the volume offers surveys of recent developments in the field, engages with challenging theoretical issues, and shows how adapting Greek tragedy can throw new light on a range of contemporary issues — from our relation to the classical past and our shifting perceptions of ethnic and cultural identities to the place, function and market-value of Greek drama in today's cultural industries. The volume will be welcomed by students and scholars in Classics, Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, as well as by theatre practitioners.
Author : J. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134374100
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Greek Sense of Theatre written by J. Walton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691206481
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Rehearsals of Manhood written by John J. Winkler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When John J. Winkler died in 1990, he left a substantially complete manuscript containing the final version of the project he had undertaken in the last decade of his life: an original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. That manuscript was based on The Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College, which Winkler delivered in September of 1988. The present text has been edited and updated by classicists David Halperin, Winkler's literary executor, and Kirk Ormand, Winkler's student and an expert on Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood, the final work of a widely recognized and celebrated classical scholar, proposes an entirely new account of Greek drama providing an explanation of the social place of Greek drama and its relation to the gendered organization of Athenian social life. Winkler interprets drama as a secular manhood ritual, a public aesthetic undertaking focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and, specifically, on the training, the display, and the representation of young male warriors. According to Winkler, the chorus of both tragedy and comedy was composed of young Athenian men of citizen status, about eighteen to twenty years of age, who were undergoing military training in order to prepare themselves for the task of warfare; they danced on a rectangular dance floor in a rectangular formation that recalled the arrangement of the infantry phalanx; they accompanied plays that often highlighted scenarios of risk faced by young men on the verge of adulthood; and they performed in a theater whose seating was arranged to display the corporate body of the male citizenry as a whole, both its democratic equality and its hierarchical ranking according to degrees of excellence. Winkler does not offer new interpretations of the texts of Greek plays but a new account of how the very practice of dramatic performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state"--
Author : Peter Arnott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349005290
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Greek Theatre written by Peter Arnott and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-07-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Bullen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040095267
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy, Education, and Theatre Practices in the UK Classics Ecology written by David Bullen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of case studies, this book explores the interrelations among Greek tragedy, theatre practices, and education in the United Kingdom. This is situated within what the volume proposes as ‘the Classics ecology’. The term ‘ecology’, frequently used in Theatre Studies, understands Classics as a field of cultural production dependent on shared knowledge circulated via formal and informal networks, which operate on the basis of mutually beneficial exchange. Productions of Greek tragedy may be influenced by members of the team studying Classics subjects at school or university, or reading popular works of Classical scholarship, or else by working with an academic consultant. All of these have some degree of connection to academic Classics, albeit filtered through different lenses, creating a network of mutual influence and benefit (the ecology). In this way, theatrical productions of Greek drama may, in the long term, influence Classics as an academic discipline, and certainly contribute to attesting to the relevance of Classics in the modern world. The chapters in this volume include contributions by both theatre makers and academics, whose backgrounds vary between Theatre Studies and Classics. They comprise a variety of case studies and approaches, exploring the dissemination of knowledge about the ancient world through projects that engage with Greek tragedy, theories and practices of theatre making through the chorus, and practical relationships between scholars and theatre makers. By understanding the staging of Greek tragedy in the United Kingdom today as being part of the Classics ecology, the book examines practices and processes as key areas in which the value of engaging with the ancient past is (re)negotiated. This book is primarily suitable for students and scholars working in Classical Reception and Theatre Studies who are interested in the reception history of Greek tragedy and the intersection of the two fields. It is also of use to more general Classics and Theatre Studies audiences, especially those engaged with current debates around ‘saving Classics’ and those interested in a structural, systemic approach to the intersection between theatre, culture, and class.
