The Masks of Greek Tragedy as Point of Departure for Modern Performance
Author | : Chris Vervain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chris Vervain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Clive Barker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2001-10-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521002806 |
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theater history has a contemporary relevance, that theater studies need a methodology, and that theater criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theater studies.
Author | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472519787 |
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus", "Euripides", and "Medea" - have established a distinguished place in the international performance repertoire, and attracted eminent directors including Peter Stein, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, and Katie Mitchell. Staging texts first written two and a half thousand years ago, for all-male, ritualised, outdoor performance in masks in front of a pagan audience, raises quite different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama, including Shakespeare. But the discussion of this development in modern performance has until now received scant theoretical analysis. This book provides the solution in the form of a lively interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, between sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama alike.
Author | : Simon Trussler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2005-03-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521603287 |
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author | : F. B. Jevons |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1447484207 |
Greek drama is fascinating and the real beginning of modern drama as we know it today. This well researched and concise book is a must for anybody studying the history of drama. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999-08-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521666152 |
This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space for the purposes of any given play. The book shows how performance as a whole was organised and, through informative diagrams and accessible analyses, Wiles brings the theatre of Greek tragedy to life.
Author | : C. W. Marshall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-12-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107073758 |
In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.
Author | : Stratos Constantinidis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004332162 |
The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers addresses the need for an integrated approach to the study and staging of Aeschylus’ plays. It offers an invigorating discussion about the transmission and reception of his plays and explores the interrelated tasks of editing, translating, adapting and remaking them for the page and the stage. The volume seeks to reshape current debates about the place of his tragedies in the curriculum and the repertory in a scholarly manner that is accessible and innovative. Each chapter makes a significant and original contribution to its selected topic, but the collective strength of the volume rests on its simultaneous appeal to readers in theatre studies, classical studies, performance studies, comparative studies, translation studies, adaptation studies, and, naturally, reception studies.
Author | : Melinda Powers |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1609382315 |
Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpret and explain Athenian tragedy. A case study of Euripides’s Bacchae, which provides more information about performance than any other extant tragedy, demonstrates possible methods for reconstructing the play’s historical performance and also the inevitable challenges inherent in that task, from the limited sources and the difficulty of interpreting visual material, to the risks of conflating actor with character and extrapolating backward from contemporary theatrical experience. As an inquiry into the study of theatre and performance, an introduction to historical writing, a reference for further reading, and a clarification of several general misconceptions about Athenian tragedy and its performance, this historiographical analysis will be useful to specialists, practitioners, and students alike.