Performance in Greek and Roman theatre
By: edited by George W.M. Harrison, Vayos Liapis
Contributors: Liapēs, Vaios, editor of compilation
Series: Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature -- 353
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9789004244573; 9789004245457
Subjects: Drama; Technique; Theater; Classical drama; History and criticism; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Vayos Liapis, George W.M. Harrison, and Costas Panayotakis; title: Opsis, props, scene. The misunderstanding of 'opsis' in Aristotle's 'poetics' / G.M. Sifakis; title: Propping up Greek tragedy: the right use of opsis / David Konstan; title: Generalizing about props: Greek drama, comparator traditions, and the analysis of stage objects / Martin Revermann; title: Actors' properties in ancient Greek drama: an overview / Rob Tordoff; title: Skenographia in brief / Jocelyn Penny Small; title: Greek tragedy. Aeschylean opsis / A.J. Podlecki; title: Casting votes in Aeschylus / Geoffrey W. Bakewell; title: Under Athena's gaze: Aeschylus' 'Eumenides' and the topography of opsis / Peter Meineck; title: Heracles' costume from Euripides' 'Heracles' to pantomime performance / Rosie Wyles; title: Weapons of friendship: props in Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and 'Ajax' / Judith Fletcher; title: 'Skene', altar and image Euripides' 'Iphigeneia among the Taurians' / Robert C. Ketterer; title: Staging 'rhesus' / Vayos Liapis; title: ^; title: Greek comedy. Actors in old comedy, again / C.W. Marshall; title: 'The Odeion on his head': costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian women: Fr. 73 / Jeffrey S. Rusten; title: Rehearsing Aristophanes / Graham Ley; title: Rome and empire. Haven't I seen you before somewhere? optical allusions in Republican tragedy / Robert Cowan; title: Anicius vortit barbare: the scenic games of l. Anicius Gallus and the aesthetics of Greek and Roman performance / George Fredric Franko; title: Otium, opulentia and opsis: setting, performance and perception within the Mise-en-scene of the Roman house / Richard Beacham; title: Towards a Roman theory of theatrical gesture / Dorota Dutsch; title: Lucian's 'on dance' and the poetics of the pantomime mask / A.K. Petrides; title: Pantomime: visualising myth in the Roman Empire / Edith Hall; title: Integrating opsis : stringed instruments in fifth-century drama / George A. Kovacs; title: Bloody (stage) business: Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' 'Bacchae' / Gonda Van Steen; title: ^; title: ^^; title: From sculpture to vase-painting: archaeological models for the actor / Fiona Macintosh.; title: ^^