Format:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781139340090
Content:
Drawing upon a wide range of fresh visual evidence, Alan Hughes presents a new account of comedy production in the classical period. Clearly organised by topic, the book summarises contemporary research and disputes, on such subjects as acting techniques, theatre buildings, masks and costumes, music and the chorus
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Cover -- PERFORMING GREEK COMEDY -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: Comedy in art, Athens and abroad -- THE EVIDENCE -- Vases -- Figurines -- Is this evidence reliable? -- FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION -- THE PROFESSION OF ACTOR -- TOURING -- CHAPTER 2: Poets of Old and Middle Comedy -- ARCHAIC COMEDY -- OLD COMEDY AND FESTIVAL -- Magnes -- THE SICILIAN CONNECTION -- Epicharmos -- MATURE OLD COMEDY -- Kratinos -- Krates -- Pherekrates -- Eupolis -- Aristophanes -- Aristophanic comedy -- Lost Aristophanes -- MIDDLE COMEDY -- Professional theatre -- Navigating Middle Comedy -- Aristophanes' Middle Comedies -- Decline of the chorus? -- POETS AND TYPES OF MIDDLE COMEDY -- Myth and tragedy upside-down -- City comedy -- Satire -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD -- Archaeology, uses and limitations -- Vases, changing comic styles -- Figurines, stage characters -- BEYOND ATHENS -- CHAPTER 3: Theatres -- ATHENS: THE EARLIEST THEATRE -- Orchestra and theatron -- Skene -- SECOND PHASE, 446-440 -- THEATRES OUTSIDE ATTICA -- Lost theatres -- FOURTH-CENTURY STAGES IN THE GREEK WEST -- Taras -- Paestum -- Sicily -- ATHENS: THE STONE THEATRE -- Theatron and orchestra -- Skene -- SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Ekkyklema -- Mechane -- Skene painting -- CHAPTER 4: The comic chorus -- EARLY COMEDY IN WRITING -- EARLY COMEDY IN PICTURES -- Fat men -- Archaic choruses -- Presenting the chorus -- ENTER THE ACTOR -- THE CHORUS IN LATER ART -- CHORIC DANCE -- Formation and size -- The chorus in the Greek west -- DECLINE OF THE CHORUS? -- CHAPTER 5: Music in comedy -- THE AULOS -- Musicians at festivals -- Musicians and convention -- MUSICAL LANGUAGE -- Choral music -- THE NEW MUSIC -- SONG AND DANCE -- CHAPTER 6: Acting, from lyric to dual consciousness -- BEGINNERS ON STAGE -- From poet to actor -- First comic actors -- PLOT AND THE RISING ACTOR
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6 ACTING, FROM LYRIC TO DUAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- 7 TECHNIQUE AND STYLE OF ACTING COMEDY -- 8 THE MASKS OF COMEDY -- 9 COSTUMES OF OLD AND MIDDLE COMEDY -- 10 COMEDY AND WOMEN -- 11 NEW COMEDY -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT TEXTS -- MODERN COMMENTARY -- Index
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ACTORS IN SOCIETY -- CASTING -- How many actors? -- Doubling opportunities -- Nothing to do with Stanislavsky -- VOICE, SPEECH, MOVEMENT -- AESTHETICS, PROCESS -- Believing characters -- Transitions -- CHAPTER 7: Technique and style of acting comedy -- PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION -- THE EVIDENCE -- ATTITUDE, GESTURE -- TYPES OF GESTURE -- Emblems -- Affective gestures -- Manipulators -- ACTING WOMEN -- The maiden -- The wife -- The crone -- PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION -- Helping the sick -- Mistaken identity -- Terracotta husbandmen -- CHAPTER 8: The masks of comedy -- WHAT MASKS WERE LIKE -- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MASK -- Spiritual or practical? -- Mask and metatheatre -- Actor and mask -- Symbolism -- HOW MASKS WERE MADE -- Origins -- Fabric and plaster -- Wood -- MASK TYPES -- CHAPTER 9: Costumes of Old and Middle Comedy -- CHORUSES -- Archaic -- Later choruses -- THE ACTOR'S UNDERCOSTUME -- OUTER COSTUME: EVIDENCE -- The comic costume controversy -- Evidence in two media -- WOMEN'S COSTUME -- Tunics -- Outerwear: cloaks, headgear -- Shoes -- MEN'S COSTUME -- Tunics -- Cloaks -- Shoes -- Headgear -- DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSITION -- CHAPTER 10: Comedy and women -- IMAGINARY WOMEN -- Protagonist roles: Lysistrata, Praxagora -- Deities -- REAL WOMEN -- Women in the audience -- Poets -- Design and production -- WOMEN PERFORMING -- Musicians -- Women on stage -- Mutes -- CHAPTER 11: New Comedy -- CANONICAL POETS -- FAME AND FORTUNE -- NEW THEATRES -- Orchestra -- Logeion -- THE DETACHED CHORUS -- HELLENISTIC THEATRES -- COSTUMES, MASKS -- Identifying mask types -- Old men -- Young men -- Slaves -- Old women -- Young women -- EPILOGUE -- Catalogue of objects discussed -- VASES -- TERRACOTTAS -- OTHER MEDIA -- Notes -- 1 COMEDY IN ART, ATHENS AND ABROAD -- 2 POETS OF OLD AND MIDDLE COMEDY -- 3 THEATRES -- 4 THE COMIC CHORUS -- 5 MUSIC IN COMEDY
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Print version Hughes, Alan Performing Greek Comedy Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2011 ISBN 9781107009301
Language:
English
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