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001 2011027499
003 DLC
005 20120326133321.0
008 110718s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011027499
020 $a9781107009301 (hc)
020 $a1107009308 (hc)
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050 00 $aPA3201$b.H84 2011
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100 1 $aHughes, Alan,$cPh. D.
245 10 $aPerforming Greek comedy /$cAlan Hughes.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axvi, 311 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Alan Hughes presents a new complete account of production methods in Greek comedy. The book summarises contemporary research and disputes, on such topics as acting techniques, theatre buildings, masks and costumes, music and the chorus. Evidence is re-interpreted and traditional doctrine overthrown. Comedy is presented as the pan-Hellenic, visual art of theatre, not as Athenian literature. Recent discoveries in visual evidence are used to stimulate significant historical revisions. The author has directly examined 350 vase scenes of comedy in performance and actor-figurines, in 75 collections, from Melbourne to St Petersburg. Their testimony is applied to acting techniques and costumes, and women's participation in comedy and mime. The chapters are arranged by topic, for convenient reference by scholars and students of theatre history, literature, classics and drama. Overall, the book provides a fresh practical insight into this continually developing subject"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Theatre is a mimetic art, composite and ephemeral. Directed by an underlying aesthetic, conscious or intuitive, theatrical imitation may be culturally determined or intellectually constructed. Performers deliberately imitate the 'other', whether human or animal, divine or spirit, allegory or force of nature. This mimesis is a compound, a variable array of associated arts, which may include music, dance, song and speech, supported by oral or literary composition. And every performance occurs in a unique, irrecoverable moment of time. Greek theatre is no exception. Ancient performances cannot be revived, but we have learned a good deal about their form and circumstances. This is a book about performance practice, the art of comic theatre in classical Greece. Historically, comedy has been examined less thoroughly than tragedy, in part perhaps because the extant texts are fewer and less representative, and documentary evidence comparatively scarce. While thirty-three extant tragedies are attributed to the three most celebrated poets, we have only eleven comedies by Aristophanes, and one by Menander, with some substantial fragments. The works of their rivals have disappeared"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Comedy in art, Athens and abroad; 2. Poets of Old and Middle Comedy; 3. Theatres; 4. The comic chorus; 5. Music in comedy; 6. Acting, from lyric to dual consciousness; 7. Technique and style of acting comedy; 8. The masks of comedy; 9. Costumes of Old and Middle Comedy; 10. Comedy and women; 11. New Comedy; Catalogue of objects discussed: vases, terracottas, other media; Bibliography.
650 0 $aTheater$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 500.
650 0 $aGreek drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aDRAMA / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/09301/cover/9781107009301.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011027499-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011027499-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011027499-t.html