The history of the Greek and Roman theater.
Edition: [2d ed., rev. and enl.]
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500; Theater -- History -- To 500; Theater -- Rome; Theaters -- Greece; Theaters -- Rome; Art, Classical; Art, Roman
Table of contents: title: Preface -- A note to the reader -- Chronology -- Glossary of technical terms -- The rise of the satyr play and of tragedy -- Attic tragedy. The oldest Attic tragic poets -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Post-Euripidean tragedy -- Old comedy and middle comedy : Aristophanes -- The Dionysiac festivals -- The development of the theater building in the classical period -- Scenery and mechanical devices -- The evolution of the art of acting -- New comedy : Menander -- The Hellenistic theater building -- Italian popular comedy (the phlyakes) -- The Roman plays at the time of the republic. The early republican period -- The last centuries of the republic (ca. 250-30 B.C.) -- Naevius, Plautus, Terrence -- The art of acting at Rome -- The development of the Roman theater building during the republican period -- Roman theater buildings in Italy and the provinces during the empire. Purely Roman theaters -- Graeco-Roman theaters -- Odea -- Sculptured decorations -- Plays of the Roman empire. Seneca -- The influence of the ancient theater on the modern theater.