Author: Professor Graham Ley
Publisher: Royal College of General Practitioners
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0859899640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. These essays explore aspects of historical performance in ancient Greece, and link thoughts on its significance to wider reflections on cultural theory from around the world and performance in the contemporary postmodern era, concluding with ideas on the new theatre of the diaspora. Each section of the book includes a short introduction; the essays and shorter interventions take various forms, but all are concerned with theatre, with practical aspects of theatre and theoretical dimensions of its study. The subjects range from ancient Greece to the present day, and include speculations on the origin of ancient tragic acting, the kinds of festival performance in ancient Athens, how performance is reflected in the tragic scripts, the significance of the presence of the chorus, technology and the ancient theatre, comparative thinking on Greek, Indian and Japanese theory, a critique of the rhetoric of performance theory and of postmodernism, reflections on modernism and theatre, and on the importance of adaptation to theatre, studies of the theatre and diaspora in Britain.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-25
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521648578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0715638262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 0521865220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1472519779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: J. R. Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134968809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Theatre in Ancient Greek Society the author examines the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources, which were intended only for a small, educated section of the population, he draws most of his evidence from a wide range of archaeological material - from cheap, mass-produced vases and figurines to elegant silverware produced for the dining tables of the wealthy. This is the first study examining the function and impact of the theatre in ancient Greek society by employing an archaeological approach.
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991-12-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780231516082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient Sun, Modern Light
Author: Vayos Liapis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1107155703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.