UID:
almahu_9949701002602882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 591 pages)
ISBN:
9789004245457
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; 353
Content:
In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre.
Note:
Front Matter /
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Making Sense of Ancient Performance /
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The Misunderstanding of Opsis in Aristotle's Poetics /
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Propping Up Greek Tragedy: The Right Use of Opsis /
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Generalizing about Props: Greek Drama, Comparator Traditions, and the Analysis of Stage Objects /
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Actors' Properties in Ancient Greek Drama: An Overview /
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Skenographia in Brief /
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Aeschylean Opsis /
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Theatricality and Voting in Eumenides: "ΨΗΦΟΝ Δ' ΟΡΕΣΤΗΙ ΤΗΝΔ' ΕΓΩ ΠΡΟΣΘΗΣΟΜΑΙ" /
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Under Athena's Gaze: Aeschylus' Eumenides and the Topography of Opsis /
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Heracles' Costume from Euripides' Heracles to Pantomime Performance /
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Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles' Philoctetes and Ajax /
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Skēnē, Altar and Image in Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians /
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Staging Rhesus /
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Three Actors in Old Comedy, Again /
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'The Odeion on His Head': Costume and Identity in Cratinus' Thracian Women fr. 73, and Cratinus' techniques of political satire /
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Rehearsing Aristophanes /
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Haven't I Seen You before Somewhere? Optical Allusions in Republican Tragedy /
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Anicius vortit barbare: The Scenic Games of L. Anicius Gallus and the Aesthetics of Greek and Roman Performance /
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Otium, Opulentia and Opsis: Setting, Performance and Perception Within the mise-en-scène of the Roman House /
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Towards a Roman Theory of Theatrical Gesture /
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Lucian's On Dance and the Poetics of the Pantomime Mask /
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Pantomime: Visualising Myth in the Roman Empire /
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Stringed Instruments in Fifth-Century Drama /
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Bloody (Stage) Business: Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' Bacchae (1997) /
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From Sculpture to Vase-Painting: Archaeological Models for the Actor /
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Bibliography /
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Indexes /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Performance in Greek and Roman theatre Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 ISBN 9789004244573
Language:
English
