Walter Puchner

Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107681521
• ISBN-10: 1107681529
• Artikelnr.: 61622545

Autorenporträt

Walter Puchner is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens. He has published more than eighty books and about four hundred articles in academic journals. His research interests include the history of theatre in the Balkan peninsula, the comparative folklore and ethnography of the Mediterranean and Southeast Europe, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, as well as the theory of drama and theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The long twilight of ancient theatre and drama; 2. Byzantium: high
culture without theatre or dramatic literature; 3. Re-inventing theatre:
Renaissance and Baroque Crete under Venetian rule (1500s-1600s); 4. Shaping
a theatre tradition: the Ionian Islands from Venetian to British rule
(1500s-1800s); 5. Jesuit theatre in Constantinople and the Archipelago
(1600-1750); 6. Drama without performance: the Greek Enlightenment and
Phanariot literature; 7. Rehearsing the Revolution: theatre as preparation
for the uprising of 1821 (Bucharest, Jassy, Odessa); 8. Outlook: theatre in
the nation-state versus theatre in the diaspora.