[PDF] Theatre In Ancient Greek Society eBook

Author : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134968809

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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 : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134968736

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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 : John Richard Green
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415143592

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An examination of the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history, drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological material.

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521648578

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Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521836824

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Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 311033755X

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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 : David Kawalko Roselli
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292744773

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Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas created exclusively for themselves—a model that reduces theater to little more than a medium for propaganda. Women's theater attendance remains controversial, and little attention has been paid to the social class and ethnicity of the spectators. Whose theater was it? Producing the first book-length work on the subject, David Kawalko Roselli draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence, economic and social history, performance studies, and ancient stories about the theater to offer a wide-ranging study that addresses the contested authority of audiences and their historical constitution. Space, money, the rise of the theater industry, and broader social forces emerge as key factors in this analysis. In repopulating audiences with foreigners, slaves, women, and the poor, this book challenges the basis of orthodox interpretations of Greek drama and places the politically and socially marginal at the heart of the theater. Featuring an analysis of the audiences of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, Theater of the People brings to life perhaps the most powerful influence on the most prominent dramatic poets of their day.

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 022615467X

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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 : Aristophanes
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1994-03-14
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.

Author : Mark Golden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521497909

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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.