In The Theatre Of Dionysos

Author : Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014277930
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens written by Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jennifer Wise
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744941
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dionysus Writes written by Jennifer Wise and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of theatre's uneasy alliance with literature? Should theatre be viewed as a preliterate, ritualistic phenomenon that can only be compromised by writing? Or should theatre be grouped with other literary arts as essentially'textual,'with even physical performance subsumed under the aegis of textuality? Jennifer Wise, a theatre historian and drama theorist who is also an actor, director, and designer, responds with a challenging and convincing reconstruction of the historical context from which Western theatre first emerged. Wise believes that a comparison of the performance style of oral epic with that of drama as it emerged in sixth-century Greece shows the extent to which theatre was influenced by literate activities relatively new to the ancient world. These activities, foreign to Homer yet familiar to Aeschylus and his contemporaries, included the use of the alphabet, the teaching of texts in schools, the public inscription of laws, the sending and receiving of letters, the exchange of city coinage, and the making of lists. Having changed the way cultural material was processed and transmitted, the technology of writing also led to innovations in the way stories were told, and Wise contends that theatre was the result. However, the art of drama appeared in ancient Greece not only as a beneficiary of literacy but also in defiance of any tendency to see textuality as an end in itself.

Author : Richard Sewell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Theatre of Dionysos written by Richard Sewell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes parallel lives of Athenian democracy and Athenian tragedy--how and why they concurrently arose, blossomed and died, shaped especially by a fatal Athenian penchant for war. Demonstrates how drama emerged from four unique elements in Greek culture: bardic poetry; open sporting competition; uncodified religion; and exploratory philosophy. Imagines evolution of the tragic genre from practitioner's viewpoint"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062020
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy written by Johanna Hanink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786451593
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Dionysus written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African experience in the New World. The complex relationship between ancient Greek tragedy and modern African American theatre is primarily rooted in America, where the connection between ancient Greece and ancient Africa is explored and debated the most. The different ways in which Greek tragedy has been used by playwrights, directors and others to represent and define African American history and identity are explored in this work. Two models are offered for an Afro-Greek connection: Black Orpheus, in which the Greek connection is metaphorical, expressing the African in terms of the European; and Black Athena, in which ancient Greek culture is "reclaimed" as part of an Afrocentric tradition. African American adaptations of Greek tragedy on the continuum of these two models are then discussed, and plays by Peter Sellars, Adrienne Kennedy, Lee Breuer, Rita Dove, Jim Magnuson, Ernest Ferlita, Steve Carter, Silas Jones, Rhodessa Jones and Derek Walcott are analyzed. The concepts of colorblind and nontraditional casting and how such practices can shape the reception and meaning of Greek tragedy in modern American productions are also covered.

Author : Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens written by Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harald Müller
Publisher : Verlag Theater der Zeit
ISBN 13 : 395749222X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dionysus in Exile: written by Harald Müller and published by Verlag Theater der Zeit. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 23 and 24, 2011, a group of scholars and practitioners from different fields and parts of the world assembled at the Greek Cultural Foundation in Berlin to discuss aspects of Terzopoulos'theatre related to its Dionysian qualities. Scholars of theatre studies, classical studies, psychoanalysis, psycho- and neurolinguistics met with writers, dramaturges, directors, and actors to share their views on the particularity of Terzopoulos' theatre. The symposium was held in his honor. With contributions from: Etel Adnan | Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis | Penelope Chatzidimitriou | Alexander Chepurov | Freddy Decreus | Matthias Dreyer | Erika Fischer-Lichte | Gonia Jarema | Kerem Karaboga | Frank M. Raddatz | Georgios Sampatakakis | Savvas Stroumpos | Dimitris Tsatsoulis | David Wiles

Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139468235
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plague and the Athenian Imagination written by Robin Mitchell-Boyask and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.

Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521836824
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond written by Eric Csapo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cyclops written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: