The Greek Sense of Theatre : Tragedy and Comedy Reviewed

• Tác giả: J. Michael Walton
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1138857315
• ISBN-13: 978-1138857339
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 792.0938 Stage presentations
• Thông tin xuất bản: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
• Mô tả vật lý: xvii, 166 pages : , illustrations ; , 25 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 157284
• Chủ đề: 1. Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism; 2. Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism; 3. Mythology, Greek, in literature; 4. Theater--History--To 500--Greece

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes that we consider Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis overlooked in much classical scholarship. Greek plays have survived as written texts, virtually without stage direction, and because the conditions of the first performance were never recorded, it tends to be assumed that language was the most important feature of the Greek drama. Professor Walton seeks to disprove this idea, expanding this new edition to include the comedies of Aristophenes and Menander as well as the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.