Research Catalog

Title

Performance in Greek and Roman theatre / edited by George W.M. Harrison, Vayos Liapis.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Harrison, George W. M., 1951-
• Liapēs, Vaios

Description

vii, 590 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 353

Uniform Title

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 353.

Subjects

• Theater
• Drama > Technique
• Grekland
• Rome (Empire)
• Theater > Rome > History > To 500
• History
• Aufsatzsammlung
• To 500
• Aufführung
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Greece > Altertum
• Theater > Greece > History > To 500
• Italy > Rom
• Römisches Reich
• Teater > historia
• Classical drama > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-578) and index.

Language (note)

• In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.

Contents

Introduction / Vayos Liapis, George W.M. Harrison, and Costas Panayotakis -- Opsis, props, scene. The misunderstanding of 'opsis' in Aristotle's 'poetics' / G.M. Sifakis -- Propping up Greek tragedy: the right use of opsis / David Konstan -- Generalizing about props: Greek drama, comparator traditions, and the analysis of stage objects / Martin Revermann -- Actors' properties in ancient Greek drama: an overview / Rob Tordoff -- Skenographia in brief / Jocelyn Penny Small -- Greek tragedy. Aeschylean opsis / A.J. Podlecki -- Casting votes in Aeschylus / Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- Under Athena's gaze: Aeschylus' 'Eumenides' and the topography of opsis / Peter Meineck -- Heracles' costume from Euripides' 'Heracles' to pantomime performance / Rosie Wyles -- Weapons of friendship: props in Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and 'Ajax' / Judith Fletcher -- 'Skene', altar and image Euripides' 'Iphigeneia among the Taurians' / Robert C. Ketterer -- Staging 'rhesus' / Vayos Liapis -- Greek comedy. Actors in old comedy, again / C.W. Marshall -- 'The Odeion on his head': costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian women: Fr. 73 / Jeffrey S. Rusten -- Rehearsing Aristophanes / Graham Ley -- Rome and empire. Haven't I seen you before somewhere? optical allusions in Republican tragedy / Robert Cowan -- Anicius vortit barbare: the scenic games of l. Anicius Gallus and the aesthetics of Greek and Roman performance / George Fredric Franko -- Otium, opulentia and opsis: setting, performance and perception within the Mise-en-scene of the Roman house / Richard Beacham -- Towards a Roman theory of theatrical gesture / Dorota Dutsch -- Lucian's 'on dance' and the poetics of the pantomime mask / A.K. Petrides -- Pantomime: visualising myth in the Roman Empire / Edith Hall -- Integrating opsis : stringed instruments in fifth-century drama / George A. Kovacs -- Bloody (stage) business: Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' 'Bacchae' / Gonda Van Steen -- From sculpture to vase-painting: archaeological models for the actor / Fiona Macintosh.

Call Number

JFE 16-3949

ISBN

• 9789004244573
• 9004244573
• 9789004245457 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012047528

OCLC

815383378

Title

Performance in Greek and Roman theatre / edited by George W.M. Harrison, Vayos Liapis.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 353

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 353.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-578) and index.

Language

In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.

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Table of contents

Chronological Term

To 500

Added Author

Harrison, George W. M., 1951- editor.

Liapēs, Vaios, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3949