Action, Song, and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Action, Song, and Poetry write by Alessandro Grilli. This book was released on 2023. Action, Song, and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson
Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson write by Alessandro Grilli. This book was released on 2023-01-30. Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of the dynamics of musical and poetical meta-performance as they emerge both from the surviving corpus of ancient Attic comedy (which adds up, for our purposes, to Aristophanes’ eleven extant plays) and from Ben Jonson’s comedies. As a matter of fact, both corpora show a huge presence of meta-performative elements, that is, of moments in which musical and/or poetical performance is explicitly thematized or enacted in the drama. Those moments are hardly ever fortuitous, or not significant. On the contrary, they play each time a vital role in the development of the plot, in the portrait of characters, or in the definition of the ideology of the play. By means of a comparative analysis between the two authors, the book aims at providing a taxonomy of meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson, with particular attention to its role in the definition of the characters' poetic ability. Such comparison will show that, despite using similar comic and performative strategies, the two authors draw a completely different ideology around the crucial themes of culture and titularity.
A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2
A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 write by Marco Duranti. This book was released on 2023-12-20. A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms write by Ron Padgett. This book was released on 2000. The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.
Theatre and Metatheatre
Theatre and Metatheatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Metatheatre write by Elodie Paillard. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Theatre and Metatheatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many different, sometimes even contradictory, ways by modern scholars. Through a series of papers examining questions related to ancient Greek theatre and dramatic performances of various genres the use of those two terms is problematized and put into question. Must ancient Greek theatre be reduced to what was performed in proper theatre-buildings? And is everything was performed within such buildings to be considered as ‘theatre’? How does the definition of what is considered as theatre evolve from one period to the other? As for ‘metatheatre’, the discussion revolves around the interaction between reality and fiction in dramatic pieces of all genres. The various definitions of ‘metatheatre’ are also explored and explicited by the papers gathered in this volume, as well as the question of the distinction between paratheatre (understood as paratragedy/comedy) and metatheatre. Readers will be encouraged by the diversity of approaches presented in this book to re-think their own understanding and use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ when examining ancient Greek reality.
