
Page and Stage
Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2023
Book
Hardback
IX, 184 pages
978-3-11-124739-7 (ISBN)
Description
Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving literary and iconographic evidence and the realities of performance on the ancient Greek stage. This ambitious goal is reached by means of a detailed examination of several case-studies: the construction of dramatic space in Sophocles'
Antigone
; the significance of the use of deictic pronouns in Sophocles'
Trachiniae
; the theatrical and religious dynamics of the appearance of divine figures on stage; the relationship between the victory celebrations at the end of Aristophanic comedies and their counterparts in the after-performance real world; the investigation of nude or semi-nude female characters in Aristophanes; the staging of
Clouds
and the opening scene of
Acharnians
; the meditation on the metapoetics of the use of props in 5th-century comedy; the relationship between performance context and text through a close reading of a number of Aristophanic fragments; the way the
scholia vetera
on
Frogs
imagine and use questions of staging practice; and the potential Aeschylean authorship of some of stage-direction traceable in Aeschylus'
Eumenides
and
Diktoulkoi
.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
5 farbige Abbildungen
5 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-124739-7 (9783111247397)
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Persons
S. Douglas Olson , Department of Classical and Near Eastern Relligions and Cultures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Oliver Taplin , Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Piero Totaro , Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.