Radical Theatre
Subtitle: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (Classical Inter/Faces)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780715629161
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Theatre, drama; 21st century; BCE to c 500 CE; History and criticism; Foreign countries; Performing Arts; Plays / Drama; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Performing Arts/Dance; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Drama; Theater - General; History / Ancient / Greece; Theater - History & Criticism; Appreciation; Greek drama; Greek drama (Tragedy); Presentation, Modern
First sentence: The Greek word theatron means a place where spectators watch a performance, and in classical Athens the most important such place was the theatre of Dionysus, the venue for which almost all surviving Greek tragedies and comedies were written.