Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865220
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865220
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865220
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre
Author: George Harrison
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004245456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004245456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Greek Theatre Performance
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521648578
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521648578
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Author: Mary Louise Hart
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Tragedy in Athens
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521666152
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521666152
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Athenian Tragedy in Performance
Author: Melinda Powers
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382315
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382315
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827251
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827251
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance
Author: Sears A. Eldredge
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113657
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Because mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation but to instruct them in the techniques of method as well. Featuring dozens of improvisational exercises in the innovative spirit of Viola Spolin, and supplemented with practical appendices on mask design and construction, forms and checklists, and other classroom materials, this book is an invaluable tool for teacher and student alike, as well as compelling reading for anyone interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of masks as agents of transformation, creativity, and performance.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113657
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Because mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation but to instruct them in the techniques of method as well. Featuring dozens of improvisational exercises in the innovative spirit of Viola Spolin, and supplemented with practical appendices on mask design and construction, forms and checklists, and other classroom materials, this book is an invaluable tool for teacher and student alike, as well as compelling reading for anyone interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of masks as agents of transformation, creativity, and performance.
The Function of the Ekkyklema in Greek Theatre
Author: Joel Eis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773435278
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shows how the ekkyklema worked semiotically, dramaturgically and politically within Greek tragedy. In this cultural study, the author explores the proposition that the success of Greek tragedy was connected to the pre-mediated use of religious tropes in the drama, thus triggering profoundly ancient and effective traditional loyalties.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773435278
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shows how the ekkyklema worked semiotically, dramaturgically and politically within Greek tragedy. In this cultural study, the author explores the proposition that the success of Greek tragedy was connected to the pre-mediated use of religious tropes in the drama, thus triggering profoundly ancient and effective traditional loyalties.
Theatre and Citizenship
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193273
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shaped by political concerns of today, this is an informed but provocative take on theatre history and theatre's social function.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193273
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shaped by political concerns of today, this is an informed but provocative take on theatre history and theatre's social function.