Actors and icons of the ancient theater
By: Eric Csapo
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781405135368
Description: This work examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theatre in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. The book presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study and offers a systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theatre outside Athens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A portrait of the artist I : theater-realistic art in Athens, 500-330 BC; title: A portrait of the artist II : theater-realistic art in the Greek west, 400-300 BC; title: The spread of theater and the rise of the actor; title: Kallippides on the floor sweepings : the limits of realism in classical acting; title: Cooking with Menander : slices from the ancient home entertainment industry?; title: The politics of privatization : a short history of the privatization of drama from classical Athens to early imperial Rome.