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Author : Chris Vervain
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN :
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521865220
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521002806
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theater history has a contemporary relevance, that theater studies need a methodology, and that theater criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theater studies.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472519787
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 : F. B. Jevons
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1447484207
Greek drama is fascinating and the real beginning of modern drama as we know it today. This well researched and concise book is a must for anybody studying the history of drama. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521603287
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521666152
This 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 : Melinda Powers
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1609382579
Foregrounding 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 : J. Michael Walton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 3718658526
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316195279
Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Structure is presented not as a theoretical abstraction, but as a crucial component of the experience of performance, working with music, the chorus and the other plays in the tetralogy. Euripides' Andromeda in particular is shown to have resonances with Helen not previously described. Arguing that the role of the director is key, Marshall shows that the choices that a director can make about role doubling, gestures, blocking, humour, and masks play a crucial part in forming the meaning of Helen.