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An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author : Mary Louise Hart
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606060376
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 9780872265974
A history of ancient Greek drama including discussion of the drama competition, Oedipus the King, actors and the chorus, playwrights, and the legacy of Greece.
Author : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134968809
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 William Donaldson
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Greek drama
ISBN :
Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 311033755X
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 : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134924038
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 : John William Donaldson
Publisher : New York : Haskell House Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Drama
ISBN :
A full survey of the subject of Greek theatre & drama including chapters on The Religious Origin of Greek Drama, The Tragic Chorus, The Tragic Dialogue, The Proper Classification of Greek Plays, Origin of Comedy, The Greek Tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Greek Comedy, Aristophanes & Others, Chronology of the Greek Drama, Exhibition of the Greek Drama. Illus.
Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1408149869
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 : Philip Wentworth Buckham
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Greek drama
ISBN :
Author : Clifford Ashby
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 158729463X
Many dogmas regarding Greek theatre were established by researchers who lacked experience in the mounting of theatrical productions. In his wide-ranging and provocative study, Clifford Ashby, a theatre historian trained in the practical processes of play production as well as the methods of historical research, takes advantage of his understanding of technical elements to approach his ancient subject from a new perspective. In doing so he challenges many long-held views. Archaeological and written sources relating to Greek classical theatre are diverse, scattered, and disconnected. Ashby's own (and memorable) fieldwork led him to more than one hundred theatre sites in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Albania and as far into modern Turkey as Hellenic civilization had penetrated. From this extensive research, he draws a number of novel revisionist conclusions on the nature of classical theatre architecture and production. The original orchestra shape, for example, was a rectangle or trapezoid rather than a circle. The altar sat along the edge of the orchestra, not at its middle. The scene house was originally designed for a performance event that did not use an up center door. The crane and ekkyklema were simple devices, while the periaktoi probably did not exist before the Renaissance. Greek theatres were not built with attention to Vitruvius' injunction against a southern orientation and were probably sun-sited on the basis of seasonal touring. The Greeks arrived at the theatre around mid-morning, not in the cold light of dawn. Only the three-actor rule emerges from this eclectic examination somewhat intact, but with the division of roles reconsidered upon the basis of the actors' performance needs. Ashby also proposes methods that can be employed in future studies of Greek theatre. Final chapters examine the three-actor production of Ion, how one should not approach theatre history, and a shining example of how one should. Ashby's lengthy hands-on training and his knowledge of theatre history provide a broad understanding of the ways that theatre has operated through the ages as well as an ability to extrapolate from production techniques of other times and places.