UID:
almafu_9960117013902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-02863-1
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1-316-40196-0
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1-316-02815-1
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1-316-02960-3
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1-316-03008-3
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1-316-03104-7
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1-107-44449-7
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1-316-03200-0
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1-316-01821-0
Content:
This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes. Drawing on both textual and material evidence from the fourth- and fifth-century Greek world, it examines three layers of costume: the bodysuit worn by the actors, the characters' clothes, and the additional layering of disguise. A chapter is also devoted to the inventive costumes of the comic chorus. Going beyond describing what costumes looked like, the book focuses instead on the dynamics of costume as it is manipulated by characters in the performance of plays. The book argues that costume is used competitively, as characters handle each other's costumes and poets vie for status using costume. This argument is informed by performance studies and by analyses of gender and the body.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures and table; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Comic Costume in Action; Influences and Approach; Methodology and Evidence; Four Basic Types of Costume Manipulation; 2 The Comic Body as Costume; Envisioning the Comic Body; The Male Comic Body; The Female Comic Body; The Tragic Body on the Comic Stage; Some Uses of the Body in Extant Plays; The Body Impolitic: Knights; Revealing the Comic Body: Lysistrata; 3 Cloaks, Shoes, and Societal Redress
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The Essential Wardrobe of a Comic CharacterYou Can Dress Him Up But ... : Wasps; The Case of the Stolen Cloaks: Assemblywomen; Rags to Riches: Wealth; 4 Disguise, Gender, and the Poet; Success and Masculinity: Acharnians; Failure and Emasculation: Women at the Thesmophoria; Image of a Failed Female Disguise: The St. Agata Antigone; Exchange, Status, and the Poets: Frogs; 5 Animal Costumes and Choral Spectacle; Visual Evidence for Nonhuman Choruses; Choral Costume in Attic Comedy; Beaks and Wings: Birds; Beaks and Spits; Cloaks and Wings; 6 Conclusion; Notes
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1. Introduction: Comic Costume in Action2. The Comic Body as Costume; 3. Cloaks, Shoes, and Societal Redress; 4. Disguise, Gender, and the Poet; 5. Animal Costumes and Choral Spectacle; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-03152-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-08379-6
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316018217
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