Costume In Greek Tragedy
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Author | : Rosie Wyles |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780715639450 |
The core of the book focuses on tragic costume in its original performance context of fifth-century Athens, but the implications of subsequent uses in Roman and more recent performances are also taken into consideration.Most importantly, the reader is invited to think about how tragic costume worked as a language in ancient performance and was manipulated physically and verbally in order to create meaning. Elements of this language are shown through a series of test cases from a range of ancient tragedies. All ancient passages are given in translation and the book includes a glossary of terms.
Author | : Iris Brooke |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0486147827 |
This work describes how performers were dressed in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and explains how the actors' performances influenced the cut of their costumes. 53 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Craig Jendza |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0190090944 |
Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.
Author | : Steven Charles Fazio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Costume |
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Author | : Mildred Irene Throne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : Iris Brooke |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2021-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015265660 |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy). |
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Author | : Melissa Mueller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 022631300X |
Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items—theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy. As Mueller shows, props such as weapons, textiles, and even letters were often fully integrated into a play’s action. They could provoke surprising plot turns, elicit bold viewer reactions, and provide some of tragedy’s most thrilling moments. Whether the sword of Sophocles’s Ajax, the tapestry in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, or the tablet of Euripides’s Hippolytus, props demanded attention as a means of uniting—or disrupting—time, space, and genre. Insightful and original, Objects as Actors offers a fresh perspective on the central tragic texts—and encourages us to rethink ancient theater as a whole.
Author | : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015-04-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107083796 |
This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
Author | : Simon Goldhill |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0226301273 |
Space and concept -- The chorus -- The actor's role -- Tragedy and politics : what's Hecuba to him? -- Translations : finding a script -- Gods, ghosts, and Helen of Troy