Looking at Greek Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Origins, Contexts and Afterlives of Ancient Plays and Playwrights
Redaktion: Stuttard, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on authors and dramas in their social and religious context as well as key aspects such as structure, character, staging and music. With contributions by 13 international scholars, world experts in their field, it provides readers with clear, authoritative, up-to-date considerations of both the theory and practice of Greek drama.

While each chapter can stand in isolation, the overall structure takes readers on a natural progression - beginning with sources of evidence and origins, considering the major genres and their authors, examining the traditional Aristotelean components of drama in the context of performance, and ending with later reception. In doing so, it explores Greek drama as at once a religious act, a stage for political propaganda, an opportunity for questioning social issues, and pure entertainment - a stunning melange of poetry, music, dance, and visual spectacle, specific to, yet transcending, its immediate context.

Written for students, practitioners and a general readership, it forms part of Bloomsbury's Looking at... series, appealing to the same readership and providing context to existing volumes which focus on individual plays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350320871
• Artikelnr.: 72247141

Autorenporträt

David Stuttard is an independent scholar and Fellow of Goodenough College, London, UK. He has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited five 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Lysistrata (2010), Medea (2014), Bacchae (2016), Antigone (2017), Ajax (2019) Agamemnon (2021) and Persians (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface A Brief Introduction: Greek Drama in Context (David Stuttard
Fellow of Goodenough College
UK) Sources and Context 1. Sources of Evidence for Ancient Greek Drama (Dr. Lucy C. M. M. Jackson
Assistant Professor in Classics [Ancient Greek Literature]
Durham University
UK) 2. Sixth- to Fourth-Century BCE History and Society: a Brief Introduction (Professor Paul Cartledge
Fellow of Clare College
Cambridge
UK) Origins and Genres 3. Origins: Dithyrambs
Dionysus and the Athenian Dionysia (Professor Vayos Liapis
Postgraduate Programme in Theatre Studies
The Open University of Cyprus
Cyprus) 4. Tragedy and Tragedians (Professor Menelaos Christopoulos
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature
University of Patras
Director of the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Society
Greece) 5. Comedy and Comic Poets (Professor Alan Sommerstein
Emeritus Professor of Greek
University of Nottingham
UK) Elements of Greek Drama 6. Plot: Myth in Tragedy (Professor Robert Parker
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History
New College
Oxford
UK) 7. Structure: Prologues
Choral Odes
Episodes
Messenger Speeches
and Endings (Professor Rush Rehm
Professor of Classics
Stanford University
USA) 8. Character: The Tragic and Comic Hero and Heroine (Professor Hanna Roisman
Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities
Colby University [retired]
USA) 9. Thought: Religion
Politics and Philosophy (Professor Richard Seaford
Emeritus Professor Classics and Ancient Greek
University of Exeter
UK) 10. Opsis: Stagecraft and Performance (Professor C.W. Marshall
Professor of Greek
Department of Classical
Near Eastern and Religious Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada and Justin Dwyer
Sessional Lecturer
University of Victoria
Canada) 11. Music and Dance in Tragedy
Comedy and Dithyrambs (Professor Armand D'Angour
Professor of Classics
Jesus College
Oxford
UK) The Reception of Greek Drama 12. The Romanisation of Greek Drama: The Republic (Professor George W.M. Harrison
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
Carleton University
Canada) 13. The Later Reception of Greek Drama (Professor Fiona Macintosh
St. Hilda's College
Oxford
Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
Curator of the Ioannou Centre
UK) Bibliography