Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780521543521
An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
Author : Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107068436
This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.
Author : Angela M. Heap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1472528069
This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed. A detailed investigation of their historical setting is offered which engages with recent debates on the importance of social status and citizenship in Menander's plays. The techniques of characterization are also examined, with particular focus on women, slaves and power relationships in his Epitrepontes. It appears that the audience was invited, sometimes subversively, behind the mask of this sophisticated comedy to discover that people do not always conform to literary expectations and social norms.
Author : Stavroula Kiritsi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 152754494X
Menander was renowned—and still is—for his naturalistic representations of character and emotion. However, times change, and our ideas of what is ‘natural’ change with them. To appreciate Menander’s art fully, we need to attune ourselves to the expectations of his time, and for this there is no better guide than Aristotle (along with his successor Theophrastus), who described and analysed notions of character and emotion in brilliant detail. This book examines the relevant observations of Aristotle, and explores two of Menander’s comedies in this light. It also discusses how these comedies, which have only been recovered in the past century, were adapted and performed on the Modern Greek stage, where tastes were different and Menander had been virtually unknown. The book’s comparison of the ancient originals and the modern versions sheds new light on both, as well as on cultural values then and now.
Author : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719005909
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521603287
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author : Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1316195090
This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major plays of Menander, it shows how intertextuality - the sustained dialogue of New Comedy performance with the diverse ideological, philosophical, literary and theatrical discourses of contemporary polis culture - is crucial in creating semantic depth and thus offsetting the impression that the plots are simplistic love stories with no political or ideological resonances. It also explores how the visual aspect of the plays ('opsis') is just as important as any verbal means of signification - a phenomenon termed 'intervisuality', examining in particular depth the ways in which the mask can infuse various systems of reference into the play. Masks like the panchrēstos neaniskos (the 'all-perfect youth'), for example, are now full of meaning; thus, with their ideologically marked physiognomies, they can be strong instigators of literary and cultural allusion.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199803013
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Author : J. R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 14,59 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 Frow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191009695
Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category — at once a formal construct and a quasi-person — which lies at the heart of the life of textual fictions of all kinds. Character and Person explores that ambivalence by investigating not only the kinds of thing that character is but how it works to engage readers and the range of typologies through which it has been constructed in very different periods, media, and genres. John Frow seeks to explore the ways in which character is person-like, and through that the question of what it means to be a social person. His focus is thus on the interaction between its two major categories, and its method involves a constant play back and forth between them: from philosophical theories of face to an account of the mask in the New Comedy; from an exploration of medieval beliefs about the body's existence in the afterlife to a reading of Dante's Purgatorio; from the history of humoral medicine to the figure of the melancholic in Jacobean drama; and from Proust and Pessoa to cognitive science. What develops from this methodological commitment to fusing the categories of character and person is an extended analysis of the schemata that underpin each of them in their distinct but mutually constitutive spheres of operation.
