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100 1 $aJackson, Lucy C. M.$q(Lucy Christina Mary),$d1986-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe chorus of drama in the fourth century BCE :$bpresence and representation /$cLucy C.M.M. Jackson.
246 33 $aChorus of drama in the 4th century BCE :$bpresence and representation
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2020.
264 4 $c©2020
300 $avi, 290 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aOxford classical monographs series
502 $a"This book began as an Oxford DPhil dissertation and found its final form during a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at King's College London."--Page v.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and indexes.
505 2 $aIntroduction -- The material circumstances -- The chorus in New Tragedy -- The chorus in 'Old' Tragedy -- The chorus in comedy -- An interlude: Absence, Xopov, and the Aristotelian Embolima -- Chorus and festival -- The chorus and society -- Conclusions.
520 $a"The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE seeks to upend conventional thinking about the development of drama from the fifth to the fourth centuries and to provide a new way of talking and thinking about the choruses of drama after the deaths of Euripides and Sophocles. Set in the context of a theatre industry extending far beyond the confines of the City Dionysia and the city of Athens, the identity of choral performers and the significance of their contribution to the shape and meaning of drama in the later Classical period (c.400-323) as a whole is an intriguing and under-explored area of enquiry. This volume draws together the fourth-century historical, material, dramatic, literary, and philosophical sources that attest to the activity and quality of dramatic choruses and, having considered the positive evidence for dramatic choral activity, provides a radical rethinking of two oft-cited yet ill-understood phenomena that have traditionally supported the idea that the chorus of drama 'declined' in the fourth century: the inscription of r *u~ ' *s in papyri and manuscripts in place of fully written-out choral odes, and Aristotle's invocation of embolima (Poetics 1456a25-32). It also explores the important role of influential fourth-century authors such as Plato, Demosthenes, and Xenophon, as well as artistic representations of choruses on fourth-century monuments, in shaping later scholars' understanding of the dramatic chorus throughout the Classical period, reaching conclusions that have significant implications for the broader story we wish to tell about Attic drama and its most enigmatic and fundamental element, the chorus"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aDrama$xChorus (Greek drama)
650 0 $aTheater$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 500.
650 7 $aDrama$xChorus (Greek drama)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00897475
650 7 $aTheater.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01149217
651 7 $aGreece.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208380
648 7 $aTo 500$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aOxford classical monographs.
852 00 $bglx$hPA3136$i.J33 2020