Athenian Tragedy in Performance : a Guide to Contemporary Studies and Historical Debates.

By:

Powers, Melinda

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in theatre history and culturePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781609382575
1609382579

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Athenian Tragedy in Performance.DDC classification:

808.59 22

LOC classification:

PQ4034.A7 .P384 2014

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theatrical Space; 2. Audience; 3. The Chorus, Music, Movement, and Dance; 4. Performance Style; 5. Costuming and Properties; 6. Gesture and Mask; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Summary: Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpr.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpr.

English.

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