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Performance in Greek and Roman theatre

"In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre"--Publisher's website.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
590

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Vayos Liapis, George W.M. Harrison, and Costas Panayotakis
Opsis, props, scene. The misunderstanding of 'opsis' in Aristotle's 'poetics' / G.M. Sifakis
Propping up Greek tragedy: the right use of opsis / David Konstan
Generalizing about props: Greek drama, comparator traditions, and the analysis of stage objects / Martin Revermann
Actors' properties in ancient Greek drama: an overview / Rob Tordoff
Skenographia in brief / Jocelyn Penny Small
Greek tragedy. Aeschylean opsis / A.J. Podlecki
Casting votes in Aeschylus / Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Under Athena's gaze: Aeschylus' 'Eumenides' and the topography of opsis / Peter Meineck
Heracles' costume from Euripides' 'Heracles' to pantomime performance / Rosie Wyles
Weapons of friendship: props in Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and 'Ajax' / Judith Fletcher
'Skene', altar and image Euripides' 'Iphigeneia among the Taurians' / Robert C. Ketterer
Staging 'rhesus' / Vayos Liapis
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Greek comedy. Actors in old comedy, again / C.W. Marshall
'The Odeion on his head': costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian women: Fr. 73 / Jeffrey S. Rusten
Rehearsing Aristophanes / Graham Ley
Rome and empire. Haven't I seen you before somewhere? optical allusions in Republican tragedy / Robert Cowan
Anicius vortit barbare: the scenic games of l. Anicius Gallus and the aesthetics of Greek and Roman performance / George Fredric Franko
Otium, opulentia and opsis: setting, performance and perception within the Mise-en-scene of the Roman house / Richard Beacham
Towards a Roman theory of theatrical gesture / Dorota Dutsch
Lucian's 'on dance' and the poetics of the pantomime mask / A.K. Petrides
Pantomime: visualising myth in the Roman Empire / Edith Hall
Integrating opsis : stringed instruments in fifth-century drama / George A. Kovacs
Bloody (stage) business: Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' 'Bacchae' / Gonda Van Steen
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From sculpture to vase-painting: archaeological models for the actor / Fiona Macintosh.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature -- 353

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.0938
Library of Congress
PA3201 .P44 2013, PA6073

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 590 pages
Number of pages
590

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27080205M
Internet Archive
performancegreek00harr
ISBN 10
9004244573
ISBN 13
9789004244573, 9789004245457
LCCN
2012047528
OCLC/WorldCat
815383378

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