[PDF] The Relative Position Of Actors And Chorus In The Greek Theatre Of The Fifth Century eBook

Author : John Pickard
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2018-10-22
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ISBN : 9780343988319

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Author : John Pickard
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781331977209

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Excerpt from The Relative Position of Actors and Chorus in the Greek Theatre of the Fifth Century It has been assumed, and by many writers on the subject it is assumed to-day, that the great Athenian dramatists, Vitruvius, all the grammarians, lexicographers and scholiasts had before their eyes the same Greek theatre, which remained practically unchanged from the time of Aischylos to the days when Nero and Hadrian were spectators in the theatre of Dionysos. The Vitruvian stage has been accepted as the Greek stage for the entire period of the Greek drama, and the description of the Greek theatre by the same authority has been used as a Procrustes bed to which all plans of theatre ruins must in some way be made to conform. Within the last decade, however, the revolt against the writers of post-classic times as authorities on the theatre of the V century has been rapidly spreading. The excavations in the theatres of Athens, Epidauros, Sikyon, Oropos, Megalopolis, and Eretria have yielded results of the highest importance. With the knowledge gained from these excavations, with the carefully drawn plans of these theatres before us, the older works dealing with the construction of the Greek theatre, and plans such as are found in Wieseler's Theatergebaude must be considered as antiquated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Pickard
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
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ISBN : 9781293614228

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Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134924038

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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.