The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre - 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 Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre write by Marianne McDonald. This book was released on 2007-05-31. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy - 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 Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy write by P. E. Easterling. This book was released on 1997-10-02. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.
Greek and Roman Theatre
Greek and Roman Theatre - 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 Greek and Roman Theatre write by Marianne McDonald. This book was released on 2007. Greek and Roman Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens - 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 Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens write by Jenifer Neils. This book was released on 2021-02-18. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre - 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 Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre write by Kerry Powell. This book was released on 2004-02-19. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the frame of Victorian and Edwardian culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine specific aspects of performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audiences themselves; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender are also explored. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce and melodrama, while other essays bring forward new topics and approaches that cross the boundaries of traditional investigation, including analysis of the economics of theatre and of the theatricality of personal identity.
