Theater and Society in the Classical World
Author: Ruth Scodel
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the wide scope of classical drama
Author: Ruth Scodel
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the wide scope of classical drama
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: William J. Slater
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780472107216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thought-provoking and timeless volume, presenting Roman theater as the voice of the common citizen
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780192832818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For those interested in Greek tragedy and classical literature, this volume is a new translation of three plays and is designed to make the author's original words intelligible and meaningful to modern readers.
Author: Anne Duncan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-01-30
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1107320852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Performance and Identity in the Classical World traces attitudes towards actors in Greek and Roman culture as a means of understanding ancient conceptions of, and anxieties about, the self. Actors were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabricating their identities. Conversely, they were sometimes viewed as possessed by the characters that they played, or as merely playing themselves onstage. Numerous sources reveal an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators, biographers, historians) to the abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a body of 'popular performance theory'. This text examines these sources, along with dramatic texts and addresses the issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire.
Author: David Kawalko Roselli
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0292744773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas created exclusively for themselves—a model that reduces theater to little more than a medium for propaganda. Women's theater attendance remains controversial, and little attention has been paid to the social class and ethnicity of the spectators. Whose theater was it? Producing the first book-length work on the subject, David Kawalko Roselli draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence, economic and social history, performance studies, and ancient stories about the theater to offer a wide-ranging study that addresses the contested authority of audiences and their historical constitution. Space, money, the rise of the theater industry, and broader social forces emerge as key factors in this analysis. In repopulating audiences with foreigners, slaves, women, and the poor, this book challenges the basis of orthodox interpretations of Greek drama and places the politically and socially marginal at the heart of the theater. Featuring an analysis of the audiences of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, Theater of the People brings to life perhaps the most powerful influence on the most prominent dramatic poets of their day.
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: Frances Amelia Yates
Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780710063700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The book is primarily centered on John Dee and Robert Fludd" - Preface.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0521766362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author: Bryan Doerries
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307949729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.