The Greek Theatre and Festivals
Title | The Greek Theatre and Festivals PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Wilson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2007-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199277478 |
A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological remains and monuments - which provides so much of our 'hard' evidence for the activities of the theatre. Much of the important material discussed here is unknown except to specialists, and these studies offeraccess to its interpretation to a wider audience. They cover a wide range of time and place, from the earliest days of the Greek theatre to the Roman period, with special emphasis on the neglected Hellenistic period, which is especially rich in documentary evidence.
Festival, Comedy and Tragedy
Title | Festival, Comedy and Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Francisco R Adrados |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 478 |
Release | 2023-08-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900467604X |
Greek Theatre
Title | Greek Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Ross |
Publisher | Peter Bedrick Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | 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.
Festival, Comedy and Tragedy
Title | Festival, Comedy and Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Francisco RodrÃguez Adrados |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 1975-01-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9789004043138 |
Greek Drama
Title | Greek Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Lucile Beede |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Greek drama |
ISBN |
Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy
Title | Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | David Wiles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2007-08-09 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521865220 |
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC
Title | Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Csapo |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 590 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | 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.